Our Lord said otherwise, and spoke only of the perfumes she had poured forth, and of the greatness of her charity.

According to Saint Francis de Sales, when Simon the Leper saw in Mary Magdalen nothing but a sinner, Jesus looked only at the love she had just shown Him by pouring out her perfume. Today, each time you notice a fault in someone, look straight away for a kind thing they have done and tell them, or at least tell yourself.