"'Man is a beggar before God.' These words of the Church's Catechism reveal something of our fundamental dependence on God. This need is perhaps nowhere better exemplified than in St. Luke's account of the good thief. . . .
"Saint Dismas, the good thief, has much to teach us. Dying upon a tree, mocked by the world, and knowing his guilt, Dismas is utterly poor before Jesus. He has no good work to fall back on, no beauty to present, nothing witty to say. He is a man who truly has nothing. And yet . . . "
In a recent commentary, Brother Roland Mary Wakefield, O.P., reflected on St. Dismas and his opening himself up to the grace to acknowledge his own utter unworthiness before God.
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Dominicana: The Confidence of a Thief (17 OCT 24)
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