Week 5 - Saturday

Bible Passage

Luke 15:7

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Commentary

From The Life of St Paesa

[Paesa] asked him, "Is there any repentance for me?" [St. John the Short] replied, "Yes, but not in this place." She said to him, "Take me wherever you wish.”

Then he took her to one of the convents close by the wilderness of Shiheet. On their way it became dark. St. John told her to sleep in one place, while he slept far away from her. When he stood up to pray the midnight prayer, he saw a pillar of light coming down from heaven to earth, and the angels of God were carrying the Soul of Paesa.

He heard a voice saying, "Her repentance was accepted in the moment that she repented."