Matt. 18: 15-17
If Your Brother Sins Against You
15 “ … go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
“Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound” — Romans 5:20
Every priest in the Canon of the Mass prays the prayer for Eucharistic healing: “for my countless sins”.
Given a normal lifetime, are not all of us under the indictment of having committed “countless” sins?
Shouldn’t we then all daily praise God, the Saints remind us, for His “countless” instances of forgiveness of our sins?
*… first take the log [of hypocrisy] out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” — Matt.7:5
“If thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquities,
who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee,
that thou mayest be feared.” — Ps. 130:3-4
[See also the subject of penance at Catholic Critique]
