Today's Lenten readings at Mass are my favorite in Lent. They include the Prophet Daniel's story of Susanna's being falsely accused of adultery, St. John the Evangelist's story of the woman caught "in the very act of adultery," and the 23rd Psalm as an interlude between these two readings. And all of this on the day the governor of New York was exposed for his adulteries. In tonight's online Wall Street Journal one of the headlines reads: "Wall Street Cheers as Its Nemesis Fall from Grace." After spending all day hearing confessions, this confessor thinks a better response by people on Wall Street would be from Psalm 130: "If you, Lord, mark our sins, Lord, who can stand?"
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