Dear friends,
For this month I offer you that which I prepared
in my article:
Have we
truly arrived to a SCHISM?
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An Experience of Life
One day the house keys disappeared, as
well as the salary of her husband and other valuables. Who was it?
The author of the theft had to be someone close to the family ...
This caused great suffering for Mirta Zanella (Argentina), so much so
that she did not succeed in praying. Then, remembering that Jesus
invites us to forgive, she did it, even for the person who robbed
her. A few days later it came to light that a lady in distress who
was begging in the district and with whom she had for a long time a
cordial relationship, stole from a neighbor's house: while she
threatened with a gun, her husband grabbed the stolen goods. Even
Mirta, some time later, received from this woman serious threats and
to defend herself called the police. The woman was arrested and
convicted of various crimes, and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
In the months following Mirta’s
husband suggested to her to visit this woman in prison. "No
way!" she answered also because she was afraid ... Shortly after
there was a new request: this time it was a priest of the parish, who
proposed to go with a group of other ladies to the women's prison,
where, among other people, was the jailed woman who robbed Mirta. A
little confused, Mirta accepted, remembering the words of the Gospel:
"Go therefore and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not
sacrifice." She went with the group, to the prison and at the
conclusion of the Mass she saw the woman. It was a moment: she
decided to greet her with a hug. “She started crying and asked for
forgiveness - recounted Mirta -. I replied that the Lord had already
forgiven you and I too forgive you. She asked me to pray for her
children and I promise that I would."
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Father Joseph Dwight
