YOUCAT Lesson 408
YOUCAT the catechism
for Catholic youth
408 How can you live as a young Christian if you are living in a premarital relationship or have already had premarital relations?
God loves us at every moment, in every “complicated”
situation, even in a state of sin. God
helps us to seek the whole truth about love and to find ways to live it more
and more unambiguously and decisively.
Beloved Mary Magdalene by
Giovanni_Bellini. ….. 408
A Pharisee invited him to dine with him, and he
entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in
the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an
alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet
weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with
her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had
invited him saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would
know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a
sinner.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Simon, I have
something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. “Two people were in debt
to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days’ wages*and the other
owed fifty. Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both.
Which of them will love him more?” Simon said in reply, “The
one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.” He said to him, “You have
judged rightly.” Then he turned to the woman and said to
Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me
water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with
her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but she has not
ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered. You did not anoint my head
with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. So I tell you, her many
sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the
one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” He said to her, “Your sins are
forgiven.” The others at table said to themselves, “Who
is this who even forgives sins?” But he said to the woman,
“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”-- Luke 7:36-50
In a conversation with a priest or a reliable, experienced
Christian, young people can look for a way to live out their love with
increasing integrity. They will learn
that every life is a process and that, whatever has happened, they can make a
new beginning with God’ help.
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