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Pope Francis’ General Audience: English summary


Pope Francis continues his catechesis on the Lord’s prayer, reflecting on the words “as we forgive those who trespass against us”. The official English-language summary is below:

Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis on the “Our Father”, we now consider the expression: “as we forgive those who trespass against us”.  Since everything we have, including our very existence, comes as a gift from God, we are always in his debt, for our life was not simply willed, it was also loved into being.  We can be confident, then, that the Lord will always forgive our trespasses when we ask him with contrite hearts.  Yet this grace also calls us to forgive others, just as God has forgiven us.  We see this in the parable of the unmerciful servant, who though having his own enormous debt written off, in turn refuses to cancel a much smaller debt owed to him.  The message is clear: if you refuse to forgive, then you will not be forgiven.  God, however, grants every Christian the grace to be able to transmit to others the precious gift of forgiveness, which we can do with a word, an embrace, or a smile

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