Our director of Christian formation and education used the following video for an EYC (youth) Eucharist last Sunday:
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We won't forgive the people who we hire to teach us about forgiveness.
A St. Paul's parishioner said this to me the other day, and I can't get it out of my head. When I asked her to elaborate, she said people expect more from clergy than anyone else and can't forgive them (us) if those expectations aren't met and if big mistakes are made. I wish it wasn't true. I think she might be right, though.
What's beyond forgivable?
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Maybe more than 40 days in the wilderness!
My favorite part of that video is how chapped Jesus' lips look. I bet they would have dried out for forty days in the desert, but I never thought of that.
Jokingly, I'm beginning to think being more than forty weeks pregnant is unforgivable.
Seriously, I don't know, other than to say forgiveness seems easier in the abstract than in the concrete and the specific.
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