“Therefore it is only in the infinite respect shown to his mystery that man can recognize at once the greatness of his soul and who it is that alone can fill it full: God, whom obscurely it has felt everywhere without being able to name him. In the act of faith you make in all that a man can become beyond what he may actually be; in the homage you pay to all that the grace of God can accomplish in him; in your willingness to accept what he is and the unique character of the function he is called to fulfill; in your refraining from judgment and from any interference with his conscience beyond what he himself invites; in the reserve, in short, in the silent adhesion to all that passes speech, the kneeling of your soul before his—in all this man feels infinite horizons opening before him and begins to breathe the air of his true country. He can be himself, he drops his mask, he shows you the true face of his nativity.
This is precisely what Jesus did when they brought to him the woman taken in adultery. He lowered his eyes not to look upon her shame, he allowed her to rediscover her own self in the silent love with which he enveloped her, he delivered her from the judgment of her accusers, scattering them with the voice of their own conscience. And when at last he looked at her, it was to utter words of divine respect:
"Has no man condemned you?" "No man, Lord."
"Neither will I condemn you. Go, and now sin no more."”
— FATHER MAURICE ZUNDEL, Father Zundel (t 1975) was a Swiss mystic, poet, philosopher, liturgist, and author.
— Magnificat, Vol 14, No. 12, March, Pp. 266-267.
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