"O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem"
— St Thomas Aquinas
On one of the Catholic pages I follow in social media, I read a text today about calling hypocrites those who go to Mass and continue to sin. But even the canonized saints sinned while they lived here on Earth. Among humans, only Jesus (who was also God) and the Virgin Mary (who was spared from sin - the first to be redeemed!) did not sin.
There is a story in which a man who was considered a bad person attended Mass every Sunday and was once asked how he could be such a hypocrite, after doing this and that during the week and going to Mass on Sunday. He answered, with astonishing sincerity and enviable wisdom, that if he did not go, he would be much worse than he was.
This answer is much better – if not the only true one – than the one given in the aforementioned text. It is in fact a caricature (not so much) of what we all, Catholics or not, are and should be aware of: sinners.
Only God knows the depths of each of our hearts, only He can judge our souls.
The Mass is an unparalleled treatment. We are patients in this immense general hospital we live – yes, the world. At the Mass, we are helped to heal our problems, to fight for the Life of our souls.
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Note: By the way, the above subject is in the spiritual sphere, it has nothing to do with the legal system practiced by human society, which is necessary against crimes, to protect the citizen, obviously.
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