Tag: forgiveness
Why Hating Is Too Easy and Forgiving Is Too Hard
Psychologist Considers the Reasons People Choose Bitterness ARLINGTON, Virginia, NOV. 29, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Though hatred ferments within a person and prevents positive achievements, still, it seems to be on the rise. Doctor Paul C. Vitz, associate professor and senior scholar at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, is asking why. “Hatred sort of ‘pickles’ a… Read More ›
Brian Jones: Hell is Real
WATERED DOWN THEOLOGY During seminary, Brian’s concept about hell changed. After four years in college, Brian began to embrace a watered-down theology and skepticism about biblical authority. Brian thought, “How could God send people to hell that haven’t heard the Gospel?” Even though he was raised in a conservative-evangelical home, Brian started to believe that… Read More ›
Reconciliation Comes from God
God is faithful to his eternal plan even when man, under the impulse of the evil one(43) and carried away by his own pride, abuses the freedom given to him in order to love and generously seek what is good, and refuses to obey his Lord and Father. God is faithful even when man, instead… Read More ›
Never too late
There are different types of beauty that are often noticed by individuals but perhaps ignored by the overall culture. There is the vibrant beauty of youth, which is of course noticed by our culture and idolized to the point of actually causing harm. Young men and women with an inner glow and vibrancy that perhaps… Read More ›
Lacerated (A prayer for all in inner pain)
You see Lord my struggle, sometimes I think I am drowning, I pray for a loving heart, yet so much violence, hatred, the desire to hurt dwells within. Why do I want to lash out beloved? Am I really so evil, shattered within; will I go under, devoured by my own inner hungry and rapacious… Read More ›
Jesus is a physcian that heals
Ah! from how great bitterness of soul have you often delivered me, O Good Jesus, coming to me!… How often has prayer taken me on the brink of despair, and restored me to the state of soul of one exulting in joy and confident forgiveness. Those who are afflicted in this way, behold they know… Read More ›
Love and Forgive
Let us love one another and be loved by God; let us be patient with one another and He will be patient with our sins. Let us not render evil for evil, and we shall not receive our due for our sins. For we find the forgiveness of our trespasses in the forgiving of our… Read More ›
The Secret of Forgiveness
The question is, What should we forgive and how do we do it? An ancient monastic story gives a flash of an answer, so subtle, so swift that its meaning is easy to miss. A young woman, the story goes, who is heavy with child and terrified of being executed for dishonoring the family name,… Read More ›
Prayers for the Faithful departed
Psalm 130 De Profundis Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication. If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered. I trust in the Lord; my soul… Read More ›
Healing the blindness through the message of faith and the witness of love
St Raphael is presented to us, above all in the Book of Tobit, as the Angel to whom is entrusted the task of healing. When Jesus sends his disciples out on a mission, the task of proclaiming the Gospel is always linked with that of healing. The Good Samaritan, in accepting and healing the injured… Read More ›