Bear Fruit: Forgive!
Reflection :
Tuesday of 3rd Week in Lent.
Bearing fruit… is still the theme of the liturgy from
Sunday on. Today the Lord invites us to forgive... as a fruit of the faith we
profess.
The boundless forgiveness of God and our hesitation to
forgive the negligible mistakes of our brothers and sisters - that is the
comparison we have today! I have no choice but to forgive, because I have received
so much of it from God. If we don’t forgive, I take God for granted, I disown
the grace of forgiveness that has been showered on me in abundance. Forgiving
others does not make me worthy of
forgiveness from God, because God does not see whether I merit forgiveness.
But not forgiving others makes me unworthy and unprepared to receive the
forgiveness that God gives unconditionally.
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