11/8/10 cblog LET US NOT BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS NOR TO FORGIVE Finbar 8am: "need to forgive one another as god forgives us always...came to mind a song.."sorry seems to be the hardest word" by elton john..a mex song.."you are unable to forgive others unless u first ask for forgiveness..." I grew up alone...my siblings 10 years older than me..I don't remember the experience of asking siblings for forgiveness..as a child we don't learn skill of asking for forgiveness & also forgiving others..is it easier as children or as adult ? Now I have learned it...sometimes we offend people..insult..not aware of it..sometimes intentional..in either case, let's not be afraid to ask for forgiveness & to forgive others..one time in seminary..conference..a speaker..one of my best friends, a seminarian, challenged the priest...I was anxious..my friend wasn't able to ask for forgiveness..so I took the initiative..I went to the priest..& asked the priest to forgive my friend...our tendency is always..difficult..ask for forgiveness..difficult to forgive..mexican son.unless u have forgiven, its difficult to be forgiven, to ask for forgiveness..today we are invited by luke to learn this skill, virtue..of forgiveness..when we forgive them..first in private & lovingly..." Titus 1:1-9 Paul, a slave of God and Apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior to Titus, my true child in our common faith grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior. For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you, on condition that a man be blameless married only once, with believing children who are not accused of licentiousness or rebellious. For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness, lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents. Ps 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 Responsorial Psalm R. (see 6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face Luke 17:1-6 “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin Be on your guard If your brother sins, rebuke him and if he repents, forgive him And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’ you should forgive him.” And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you"
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