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All you have to do is throw a little Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in there and everybody thinks if they don’t follow you it’s because THEY’RE stupid.

LOL!

Seriously, every part of that is good, but my fave is “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner is you.”

This is a VERY catholic story: Did I ever tell you, maybe 6-8 years ago I confessed again and again to being unforgiving and to KNOWING it’s bad and FEELING the pain but being unable to let it go. It was debilitating. I got afraid to feed my sheep because as I measured out feed and distributed it, my mind was going back to this and that injury.

We had what I call a “Confess-a-thon”. (We have them in Lent and Advent.) 6 to 8 friars come down from DC and we have makeshift “stations” with a chair, a screen if you want to use it, and a priest.

So I confessed — UH-GAIN — to this. And the friar said, “Clearly this is a supernatural affliction, so we need a supernatural remedy. Here’s what I want you to do:
Whenever you feel the anger, say a Lord’s Prayer, a Hail Mary, and then a prayer for the person you’re angry at AND a prayer for forgiveness for yourself AND him.”

So I did that. I think it was THREE DAYS LATER that I caught myself singing the Magnificat as I fed my sheep! NO Anger; Praising GOD!

Free at last! Free at Last! Great God Almighty I’m free at last!

Of COURSE I backslide. But when I notice I have my remedy.