If my finger sins.

Day 13. Admonition  10   Of Bodily Mortification.   There are many who if they commit sin or suffer wrong often blame their enemy or their neighbour. But this is not right, for everyone has their enemy in their own control.  This is their own body by which they sin. Therefore blessed is that servant who always holds captive the enemy thus given into their power.  Who wisely guards themselves from it.  As long as they act like this, then no other enemy, visible or invisible, can do them harm.

If my finger sins.   In these times, in my experience, it is more likely that the Holy Spirit will send us to Reconciliation for the sins of the mind, and by extension our fingers rather than those of the body.   The mischief in our minds in translated to our fingers and we type merrily away sending blessings or curses over the web, texting away on our mobile phones to send evil to those far away. Else we write calumny in News Print and rain scepticism down upon the heads of the innocent; then we point the finger at someone else, protesting our innocence as we do so.   In his own way Francis calls us to the blessings of a changed heart to turn our minds away from thinking evil and our fingers from writing hurt and to place these in the Father’s hands for God has no hand nor mind of God’s own to work well in the world, save our own