Tonight's Gospel reading was about Christ's feet being washed with the tears and hair of a sinful woman. The Pharisee invited Christ in, but talked behind his back and doubted Him. Jesus made the sinful woman welcome, forgiving her sins, and treating her as an actual human being.
This is the message that is so often lost when we get ourselves worked up in vigorous debate. Other people are human beings. They have feelings too.
In the homily tonight, Fr. was talking about how well do we make people feel welcome as Catholics? That our homes are the front lines of evangelism, and does that welcoming feeling end with the doormat? That the same went for the parish, when they were in the Church, did they feel welcome?
I had a Eucharistic Minister next to me tonight, who kept glaring at a baby that was crying. Babies cry, it doesn't bother me in the Mass anymore. What does bother me is when immaculately dressed people turn to glare. Did the parents feel welcome? It was more than just the woman next to me who turned to glare...
I've said this before, and I will say it again, and it does pertain to being made to feel welcome. If it were about the Christians instead of Christ, I would have never chosen to follow Him. It is a very rare occasion for me to meet a Christian that practices what he or she preaches. Like much of the world, I know Christians by their hate instead of their love...which is far from what Christ calls us to be.
Am I innocent? Hardly. I wish I was. So let us all move forward and evangelize. People's misconceptions need to be cleared up.
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