Tag: Forgiveness
This Lent, it’s important to make sure our ‘I’m sorrys’ contain...
By Dr. Greg Popcak, For OSV News
Lent is a time of reparation — a season of sorrow for sins committed and expressions of a...
How a vanity license plate unexpectedly helped me feel forgiveness —...
When my son was in sixth grade, he was standing with some buddies at dismissal time at our parish Catholic school. It was a...
Our Lenten Journey, March 7, 2022
To help the faithful observe Lent in the Diocese of Wilmington, this year’s annual Lenten Journey will focus on the theme of Reconciliation, in...
Our Lenten Journey, March 6, 2022
To help the faithful observe Lent in the Diocese of Wilmington, this year’s annual Lenten Journey will focus on the theme of Reconciliation, in...
Our Lenten Journey, March 5, 2022
To help the faithful observe Lent in the Diocese of Wilmington, this year’s annual Lenten Journey will focus on the theme of Reconciliation, in...
Forgiveness: The practice of still loving another, even when they haven’t...
She broke the rules. Snuck a cookie. Hid it behind her back, ran into the other room, chewed it up in two bites and...
Pope Francis shows us that forgiveness translates into merciful love
Imagine a society where forgiveness is so rare that virtually no one ranks it among the essentials of a life lived well and pursued...
Pentecost: A time to breathe, forgive and renew
What could be more essential to life than breathing -- or forgiving?
Breathing and forgiving: One follows the other. Forgiveness, as Jesus makes clear throughout...
Pentecost: Know forgiveness, know peace; no forgiveness, no peace
"Peace be with you," Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19).
Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a...
True forgiveness can only occur when pain is released
When I was 17 years old, I bumped into a bush and lodged a thorn in my elbow muscle. I pulled the thorn out,...