Forgive and you will be forgiven

Explain the process of forgiveness and thus initiate forgiveness1
Undoubtedly, each of us had experienced a situation in our lives when someone caused us some wrong, either they were false words to our address, insult, or did not get what we were entitled to, maybe something, word, understanding, respect, or thanks. And something in our hearts stabbed us, it hurt us, and we said, I will not forgive him, I will forgive him I will return, I will remind him or: I forgive, but I will not forget. In the gospel, we have heard some tips in life. Be merciful, do not judge and do not condemn, give and forgive so that God may do the same to you (cf. Luke 6.36-37).

Notice today Jesus’ call for forgiveness. Let’s ask ourselves questions at the beginning: When to forgive? Why forgive? How to forgive? So when? Jesus says, “When your brother will sin, rebuke him! If he turns to forgive him! And when seven times behind the daily sins against you, and seven times he will return to you and say, “I’m sorry,” forgive him! ” (Luke 17: 3b-4). At first glance, it would seem to us that we have to forgive when the culprit regrets his actions. Jesus wants to tell us something else. He doesn’t tell us, “Forgive me then and only when the culprit regrets, “but Jesus emphasizes to us,” If he regrets, always forgive ‘. If someone has hurt us but regrets their action, we are always obliged to forgive. But The Lord goes even further in His teaching of forgiveness. To Peter’s question: “Sir, how many times should I forgive my brother if he sins against me? Maybe seven times?

 Jesus told him replied, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times” (Mt 18: 21b-22). And even today in the Gospels, we have heard: “Forgive and be forgiven you” (Lk 6:37c). Jesus to us does not say: “forgive if… forgive only if…”, so forgive with conditions, but he tells Peter seventy-seven times, that is, always, to forgive we always have, without conditions. Let us now answer the question: Why forgive? This is our forgiveness to others important that there is only one place on our demand among the seven prayers of our Father’s prayer: forgive their culprits. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in paragraph 2840, we read these words: “Love is indivisible: we cannot love a God we do not see if we don’t love the brother or sister we see. If we refuse to forgive our brothers and sisters, our hearts are closed, and his hardness makes him impenetrable to the Father’s merciful love. By confessing sin, however, our hearts are opened to his grace (CCC) 2840). ”Non-forgiveness is evil. If I am not willing to give up the evil that is forgiveness, then I refuse to let God transform my heart into becoming God’s child. I refuse to eradicate evil from myself, and thus I refuse in my life, God.

How should I forgive? Someone once told me that forgiveness is a matter of reason and firm will. He meant that everyone has the power to forgive is themselves. But mine and apparently your experience is different. If someone hurts us, we perceive pain on our own inside; a wound is created in our soul. And although we often know that we have to forgive, somehow we can’t; the pain is too great, it is not in our power to overcome pain, anger, insult, and forget about her. Often our forgiveness becomes superficial, external; we say: I forgive, but I don’t forget. Our forgiveness is imperfect. What about that? Where to take strength on forgiveness? The solution is the Spirit of God. Only the Spirit of God can do the Holy Spirit our thinking as it was in Christ Jesus (cf. CCC 2842). The heart that passes on to the Holy Spirit transforms our heart’s wound into compassion and purifies our memory by converting the insult into a persuasion (cf. KKC 2843). Brothers and sisters, only The Spirit of Christ and His grace working in us can forgive us from the heart. Grace us it can inwardly seem to ferment so that we can become like Christ I in forgiveness.

Michel Quoist, a well-known author of many books, explains: “You don’t even get hurt by wounds that you get from the outside, but rather everything bad that you close in yourself, that moves there ferments and rots. ” Let us cast out of our hearts that rot in us, let us cast out of our hearts forgiveness! Did we ask ourselves at the beginning of the question: When to forgive? We always have to forgive; always we are to have forgiveness in ourselves for all and ourselves. Why should we forgive? Because forgiveness is the pus of my heart’s wound, and if I love pus, I can’t love it balm of God’s healing grace. How to forgive? In the Holy Spirit and with the Spirit
To the saints, that is, the sacramental life, confession, the Eucharist, prayer, prayer to us, The Holy Spirit healed and helped forgive. I wish each of us to experience in our hearts the grace of forgiveness.