Sunday Homily
Sunday, July 5, 2009Today, I went to mass with my younger sister. My three-week-old favorite priest facilitated the mass and again, it was great. I don’t know his name but I know he’s really good. He delivers his message in the simplest possible way. Often, he starts with a story or joke and eventually, he gets his point across. Today, he talked about our biases. Often, we have preconceptions of people that makes it hard for us to know them better. We don’t give them the chance to prove us wrong and rarely do we give them time to redeem themselves. He taught about forgiving and forgetting. He said that if we have truly forgiven someone, we forget their wrongs and we start anew. I believe in this but as I know myself, it is easy for me to forgive because growing up, they said if I don’t forgive others, God won’t forgive our shortcomings. What is hard for me is to forget. I always remember what they’ve done to me and eventually, supressed, or rather, repressed emotions resurface. Hard as it may seem, the priest said, “what we use to measure others is what God would use to measure us.” And I say, “AMEN.”
Have a blessed Sunday everyone.
