For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. (Heb 4:15)

Some of the saints take this statement, which is read today in the Liturgy of Good Friday in the Latin Rite, very literally. In fact, they apply it to themselves, except to add that they have been tested in all things and are with sin. For example, Saint Catherine of Siena says that if it is absolutely necessary to tell a sister or brother, after it becomes totally impossible not to do otherwise (we must always “let silence abide” unless our hand is genuinely forced by God), about a sin that it seems they may have committed, we should

ascribe it at once to them and to [our]self, using ever a true humility.

True humility and the truth recognizes that we have been tempted to all sin, for the one includes the other. And we are sinners, so we can speak as if, truly, such sins can be ascribed to us. Indeed, the love of our God is so great that, though he was without sin, he too ascribed all temptations to Jesus. Why would we behave differently? If it is necessary to speak about sin, then include ourselves. It’s only a matter of humility with Christ who is humble more than we.