Guess what? To be Holy as our Heavenly Father means we have to be compassionate as our Heavenly Father is compassionate. For we know how patient, loving and kind He has been with us. Indeed how heinous our sins has been against Him and all too often against our brethren. So Yes His is the integrity ours the shame! Yet in His mercy and love we are set free by His Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
How then can we withhold forgiveness? How can we not be merciful when mercy has been shown us over and over again. We are not Christians! If we do not forgive. For our God whom we love and serve, forgave us from the Cross in which He hung for love of us
Lord Jesus find me loving and forgiving. Amen
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First reading
Daniel 9:4-10
Yours is the integrity, Lord; ours the shame
O Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your commandments and your ordinances and turned away from them. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and to all the people of the land. Integrity, Lord, is yours; ours the look of shame we wear today, we, the people of Judah, the citizens of Jerusalem, the whole of Israel, near and far away, in every country to which you have dispersed us because of the treason we have committed against you. To us, Lord, the look of shame belongs, to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God mercy and pardon belong, because we have betrayed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God nor followed the laws he has given us through his servants the prophets.
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Gospel
Luke 6:36-38
Grant pardon, and you will be pardoned
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.’
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