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FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS. Read pp. 290-293 in your text and complete the following chart on page 69 of your booklet. FORGIVE US OUR SINS. The Church is not yet the kingdom of God—it is a foretaste of the kingdom—it never attains it in its fullness The Church is a community of both saints and sinners

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FORGIVENESS

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  1. FORGIVENESS

  2. Read pp. 290-293 in your text and complete the following chart on page 69 of your booklet.

  3. FORGIVE US OUR SINS • The Church is not yet the kingdom of God—it is a foretaste of the kingdom—it never attains it in its fullness • The Church is a community of both saints and sinners • In this life, the gathering of all who believe in Christ remains incomplete and tainted by people’s failures

  4. FORGIVE US OUR SINS CONTINUED…. • The desire and power of God keeps alive the hope that the work will be complete “at the end of time” • Jesus tells us that saints and sinners will coexist “until the harvest” (parable of the weeds among the wheat, Matt. 13.24-30)

  5. FORGIVE US OUR SINS CONTINUED…. • There are many events in the history of the Church which we now see as serious sins • What concerns us today are those sins that are still a stain on the body of Christ

  6. FORGIVE US OUR SINS CONTINUED…. • Pope John Paul II mentioned 4 sins of the Church that need to be forgiven: • the division of Christians • the use of force and intolerance in the service of truth • the sin against the Jewish people • the responsibility of Catholics for the evils of today (the death of God in our culture; religious indifference; the climate of secularism; loss of ethical commitments; the denial of the right to life of the unborn child; indifference to the cry of the poor)

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