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The forgiveness
Fr. Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)Today, Jesus Christ’s homily "breaks the mould". Because of the tone He employs: He speaks with moral authority only available to God. And because of the doctrine He teaches: Jesus instructs His followers to humanize the social coexistence —at times, ignorant and individualist— with forgiveness and generosity.
Only God has the right to command and teach us the exigencies of love. Forgiveness is one of the finest qualities of love. Jesus gave us a wonderful example when, in His Passion, demands the Father to forgive us. When we fail to forgive someone, we are just keeping him indebted to us (we are "enslaving him"); whereas, on the other hand, if we forgive him we liberate him.
—O Lord God, I wish that your paths to peace and fraternity may spread all over the world. I ask You to instill in all men the spirit of forgiveness and generosity. My Savior, help me so I will always know how to forgive, because in the eternal Heaven I could not be happy by keeping debts and debtors.