Mar 3 | Tuesday

“Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool.”

Those words from today’s Mass may have seemed impossible when first spoken by the prophet Isaiah - just as the Holy Father’s plea for peace can seem impossible in our own day.

Conflict will always occur, and sometimes the necessary evil of war, but reconciliation through the forgiveness of sins can transform us into something even more brilliant than we were before the fighting.

Scarlet becomes not beige, but white as snow. And Crimson becomes not grey, but white as wool. To reconcile is not to settle. It is to be transfigured by grace. +