The passage from Deuteronomy contains an acknowledgement of disobedience:
We have sinned, been wicked and done evil;
we have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws.
We have not obeyed your servants the prophets,
who spoke in your name...
The Responsorial Psalm joins in on the act and asks the Lord not to deal with us according to our sins.
A line from the second reading from yesterday seems to summarize the response to these readings very well. St. Paul in the letter to the Romans says: "It is God who acquits us, who will condemn?"
And if God himself against whom sins are committed acquits us of our sins, who are we to condemn others? And so Jesus says, ""Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. "Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned."
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