Insight on the Good Thief Who Died on a Cross next to Jesus. --What Bishop Fulton Sheen (Who May Be Canonized) Said About the Good Thief

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A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life.
A man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom.
A thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise.

One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul
purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption.

But in the Divine plan it was a thief
who was the escort of the King of kings
into Paradise.

(Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen)

This is from the America Needs Fatima blog, at The America Needs Fatima Blog: No one thought THIS would happen!
 
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This reminds me of a talk I recently heard by a priest who asked, other than Jesus, whose words from the Bible do we hear at every Mass?

It’s not St. Peter or John the Baptist or any great saint.

Rather, it’s the Roman centurion who said " O Lord, I am not worthy…"
Who as a Roman authority figure was despised by the Jews, and as a gentile was regarded as very spiritually deficient.
 
Ties in with the story of the tax collector and the Pharisee praying in the temple and the tax collector went home justified.

Both the Good Theif and the tax collector recognized and admitted their sinfulness.
 
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