Those of us who are parents, ministers, teachers, catechists, and elders must risk proclaiming the prodigal character of God’s mercy. We must not spend God’s mercy as if it were ours to spend, dole out God’s forgiveness as if it were a limited commodity, put conditions on God’s love as if God were a narrow tyrant or a political ideology, or cut off access to God as if we were the keepers of the heavenly gates. We are not! If we link God’s mercy to our own assessment of things, we then link it to our own limits, wounds, and biases.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Image source: Domenico Fetti, The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant (ca. 1619-1621), https://lectionaryart.org/2016/09/21/the-unforgiving-servant/
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