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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 19 02 2006 - Your sins are forgiven, go in peace |
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Your sins are forgiven, go in peace Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle. Through forgiveness what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean, what is lost is found. Nothing greater can happen to a human being than that he or she is forgiven. A person is no longer trapped in his past. He is set free – free to love again, free to move forward again. Forgiveness is unconditional or it is not forgiveness at all. Can one forgive oneself? No, it doesn’t work. We have to be forgiven. But we can only believe that this is possible if we ourselves are able to forgive. The words of Jesus: “Your sins are forgiven, go in peace”, are among the most wonderful in the Gospel. |
