NEW BOOK ABOUT POPE JOHN PAUL II:

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February 2, 2009  

(Mat 18:21-22) Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven times.

HEADLINE: Pope Benedict XVI meets and forgives Christmas Eve Mass attack woman

NEW BOOK ABOUT POPE JOHN PAUL II: The book publishes for the first time a never-delivered speech John Paul prepared for his weekly general audience Oct.  21, 1981, five months after the Turkish gunman, Ali Agca, shot him in St.  Peter's Square.

Agca served a 19-year sentence in an Italian prison for shooting the pope, and earlier this month was released from a Turkish jail where he served a 10-year sentence for killing a Turkish journalist in 1979.

John Paul had publicly forgiven Agca on May 17, 1981 - four days after the assassination attempt.  And he visited Agca in prison in 1983.

But five months after the attack, John Paul prepared a lengthy treatise on the power of forgiveness and the need for it in society, using his own experience as an example.

"The act of forgiveness is the first and fundamental condition so that we aren't divided and placed one against another like enemies," he wrote in what Oder called "an open letter" to Agca.

In the speech, he revealed that he while he had publicly forgiven Agca on May 17, "the possibility of pronouncing it before - in the ambulance that brought me from the Vatican to the Gemelli hospital where the first and decisive surgery was performed - I consider the fruit of a particular grace given to me by Jesus."

UGANDA: Forgiveness lacks in families – bishop

ANGLICAN JOURNAL: I'm sorry: Forgiveness can be difficult to achieve but oh, so worth it

FROM THE MAILBAG
VIA Diane: Unforgiveness- Spiritual Poison

VIA Abba Anthony: "Thou dost not so much desire thy sins to be forgiven, as He desires to forgive thee thy sins.  In proof, that thou dost not so desire it, consider that thou hast no mind either to practice vigils, or to give thy money freely; but He, that He might forgive our sins, spared not His Only Begotten and True Son, the partner of His throne." - St John Chrysostom

Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 25- "On the destroyer of the pasions, most sublime humility"

38. Contrition is one thing, self-knowledge is another, humility is another.    

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