Being Faithful To The Gospel
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Let Him Pick You Up
a God made us to be with Him eternally. He gives us all the graces we need on this journey back to Him. But He also gave us free will and we can, if we are fools, exercise that free will to reject His offer of eternal life. He stands always ready to forgive and extend His merciful arms toward us. He will never give up on us and remains ever willing, as the good Shepherd He is, to welcome us back into His loving arms. But we must want Him to pick us up.
Mercy and Forgiveness
" In the sacrament of Penance, God extends his forgiveness to us in a very personal way. Through the ministry of the priest, we come to our loving Savior with the burden of our sins. We confess that we have sinned against God and our neighbor. We manifest our sorrow and ask pardon from the Lord. Then, through the priest, we hear Christ say to us: 'Your sins are forgiven' (Mark 2:5); 'Go, and do not sin again' (John 8:11). Can we not also hear him say to us as we are filled with his saving grace: 'Extend to others seventy times seven, this same forgiveness and mercy?' " St. John Paul II
