Seventh Sunday of the Year
1 Sm 26: 2,7-9,12-13 & 22-33; 1 Cor 15:45-49; Lk 6:27-38 (Year C)
‘The Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy. He does not treat us according to our sins nor repay us according to our faults.” The call to forgiveness does not sit easily with sinful humanity. Pride is reluctant to acknowledge its own need for forgiveness. More than this, it clings to past hurts, generating a resentment that poisons the spirit.
Forgiveness is something more than a strategy enabling conflict resolution. It forms us into the likeness of the God who is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy. It liberates us to become something more than the sum total of our own failings and grievances.
