To bind and to loose (Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

      The Christian power to bind and loose is the power to bind and loose in conscience, in truth, in goodness, and in love. When I refuse to forgive another, when I hold a grudge, I am acting not as the Body of Christ, nor as an agent of grace, but precisely as part of the very chain of sin and helplessness that Christ was trying to break. 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser,
Facebook, January 14, 2026 

Image source: Joseph-Fortuné-Séraphin Layraud, Joseph se fait reconnaître par ses frères / Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brothers (1863), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Layraud#/media/File:Fortun%C3%A9_Layraud_Joseph_se_fait_reconna%C3%AEtre_par_ses_fr%C3%A8res.JPG