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January 12, Christmas Weekday. God is your beatitude. The things of time are toys. You are eternity's child and your eternity has already begun! There is a ...

January 12, Christmas Weekday God is your beatitude. The things of time are toys. You are eternity's child and your eternity has already begun! There is a compelling urgency to every day and every hour of the day. In it we are to witness to the truth – that God greeted and gifted us at Christmas. If you know what witness means, you understand why God brings St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents to the crib in the cave as soon as Christ is born liturgically. To be a witness is to be amartyr. Holy Mother Church wishes us to realize that we were born in baptism to become Christ – He who was the world's outstanding Martyr. – Love Does Such Things, by Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. Day Nineteen activity Day Nineteen recipe (Lamb's Wool)

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January 12 - Christmas Weekday

Christmas Weekday

1 John 5:14-21  +  Psalm 149  +  John 3:22-30

January 12, 2013

“All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.”  [1 John 5:17]

                                                                                                            

On this last weekday of the Christmas Season, our First Reading consists of the final eight verses of the First Epistle of Saint John.  It seems to end on an odd note:  “Children, be on your guard against idols.”  St. John offers no words of farewell and gives no specific instructions.  Of course, the 21 New Testament books commonly called “epistles” were not written by their human authors according to a single format.  St. Paul’s epistles are much closer in form to the manner in which you or I write a letter (or email) today.  St. John, on the other hand, writes his first epistle about some general Christian beliefs:  most especially God’s divine nature as Love.

The Beloved Disciple’s warning against idolatry, then, can be seen as a defense of true love.  To love any creature in the manner in which we ought to love the Creator is idolatry.  Even the most authentic of human loves (maternal, paternal, filial or spousal) is of a completely different caliber than a Christian’s love for the Most Blessed Trinity.  To put a human relationship before one’s relationship with God is to forget that God is in every sense the root of every human love.  Without putting one’s relationship with God first, human relationships begin to wither on the vine, or to extend the Beloved Disciple’s metaphor, to harden into an idol.

Aelred of Rievaulx Cistercian 12 January 2nd Patron of Nunraw

Saturday, 12 January 2013 St. Aelred, Abbot (1109-1167)
SAINT AELRED OF RIEVAULX Abbot (1109-1167)         "One thing thou lackest." In these words God called Aelred from the court of a royal Saint, David of Scotland, to the silence of the cloister. He left the king, the companions of his youth, and a friend most dear, to obey the call. The conviction that in the world his soul was in danger alone enabled him to break such ties. Long afterwards the bitterness of the parting remained fresh in his soul, and he declared that, "though he had left his dear ones in the body to serve his Lord, his heart was ever with them."         He entered the Cistercian Order, and even there his yearning for sympathy showed itself in a special attraction to one among the brethren named Simon. This holy monk had left the world in his youth, and appeared as one deaf and dumb, so absorbed was he in God. One day Aelred, forgetting for the moment the rule of perpetual silence, spoke to him. At once he prostrated himself at his feet in token of his fault; but Simon's look of pain and displeasure haunted him for many a year, and taught him to let no human feeling disturb for one moment his union with God.         A certain novice once came to Aelred, saying that he must return to the world. But Aelred had begged his soul of God, and answered, "Brother, ruin not thyself; nevertheless thou canst not, even though thou wouldst." However, he would not listen, and wandered among the hills, thinking all the while he was going far from the abbey. At sunset he found himself before a convent strangely like Rieveaux, and so it was. The first monk he met was Aelred, who fell on his neck, saying, "Son, why hast thou done so with me? Lo! I have wept for thee with many tears, and I trust in God that, as I have asked of Him, thou shalt not perish." The world does not so love its friends.         At the command of his superiors Aelred composed his great works, the Spiritual Friendship and the Mirror of Charity. In the latter he says that true love of God is only to be obtained by joining ourselves in all things to the Passion of Christ.         He died in 1167, founder and Abbot of Rieveaux, the most austere monastery in England, and Superior of some three hundred monks. Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

St. Aelred of Rievaulx 2nd Patron of Nunraw 12 Jan 2012

12 Jan 2012

Date: Thursday, 12 January, 2012. St. Aelred of Rievaulx 2nd Patron of Nunraw Community Chapter Talk, Br. Barry. SAINT AELRED 2012. Just down the coast there in Yorkshire, St. Aelred sat in his monastery of Rievaulx and ...

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Dom Donald's Blog: St Pachomius - St Aelred of Rievaulx

18 May 2008

St Pachomius - St Aelred of Rievaulx. Fr. Hugh will be celebrating his 80th Birthday 27th May 2008. In his thumbnail comment for the Feast of St. Pachomius he made the association with the like mind of St. Aelred. He later ...

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Dom Donald's Blog: Saint Aelred workshop Mt St Bernard abbey

21 May 2010

From Nunraw two of the community attended the St. Aelred of Rievaulx 'Workshop' at Mount Saint Bernerard, Fr. Hugh and Fr. Nivard. On the return home, Fr. Hugh gave at talk about the event in the Chapter. He has now ...

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Dom Donald's Blog: 900th Anniverary Ailred of Rievaulx

12 Jan 2010

900th Anniverary Ailred of Rievaulx. This year, AD 2010, we honor the 900th anniversary of Saint Aelred's birth. Saint Aelred of Rievaulx 2nd Patron of Nunraw Abbey. Solemnity 12th January 2010. St. Aelred - Born 1110, ...  

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Aelred of Rievaulx: The Memory of His Passion in Our HeartFriday, Mar 2 2012 

Aelred of Rievaulx and CISTERCIAN and MONASTIC Christ, Christ's passion, Cross, heart, memory,paschal mystery, redemption, sin, victor

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After the people of Israel left Egypt with Moses at their head, the Amalekites, a savage race, came and did battle against them.

Moses sent an army against them, while he himself went up on to a mountain to pray for them and raised his hands to the Lord.

And it came to pass that while he kept his hands raised, the people of Israel were triumphant but whenever he lowered his hands Amalek started to win.

Why was it, do you think, that the raising of his hands possessed such grace? Without doubt God usually takes more account of the attachments of the mind than of the postures of the body.

Why was it then? Did his prayer have no effect before God unless he raised his hands? That lifting up of his hands had such an effect that their enemies could not withstand the Israelites.

The reason why this lifting up of hands had such force was that it signified the raising of the hands of him who said in the psalm, The lifting up of my hands is like an evening sacrifice.

For, when evening had already come upon the world, his sweetest hands were stretched out on the Cross and there was offered up that evening sacrifice that took away the sins of the whole world.

So that raising of Moses’ hands signified the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ who went up on to a mountain to pray because he ascended into heaven to plead our cause with the Father.

There he lifts up his hands so that Amalek – that is, the devil – will not be able to vanquish us.

For there he appears in God’s sight on our behalf and re­presents to him the Passion that he underwent for us.

As for us, brothers, as long as…our fight is against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of the dark things of the world, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens, we need to have our Lord lifting up his hands within us.

That is to say, the remembrance of his Passion should be continually present in our minds.

We can be quite sure, my brothers…that as long as the memory of his Passion is in our heart, as long as our hope is directed to where Christ is pleading our cause at the right hand of the Father, the spiritual Amalek – that is, the devil – will not be able to vanquish us.

And therefore…let us see that this attachment, this remembrance, does not through some negligence on our part grow lukewarm in us.

For then we shall immediately grow faint and our enemy will gain the upper hand and cause us distress.

Aelred of Rievaulx (1110 – 1167): Sermon 13.27-29 (1st Clairvaux Coll.); tr. Berkeley & Pennington, from Cistercian Fathers 58,            from the Monastic Office of Vigils, Wednesday in 2nd Week of Lent, Year 2.

Three Offices of Christ (Newman) perceptive Newman Reader

Dear William,

Thank you.   

The best Reader and invites me into learn more form John Henry N.

Before that I browsed our library and found the Volume of Subjects of the Day. Not surprising some of the pages relevant had not yet been cut. And the great asset now is to find the Online available Newman Reader. 

At the moment we have family guest at the Retreat House, and later have the lectio divina on JHN to my heart's content! 

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From: William W ....
To: Fr Donald ...  
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2013, 14:03
Subject: Re: [Blog] Three Offices of Christ (Newman) 

Dear Father Donald,

 

I always draw something special from Newman's words! In the sermon you have placed on the Blog, the words that fascinated me are those that illustrate so brilliantly Christ's sacrifice on the cross, through the analogy of a soldier. At first I frowned at such an analogy, that is until I read these words: 

 

"2. Take another instance. How much is there to admire and revere in the profession of a soldier.... He not only is strong, but he is weak. He does and he suffers. He succeeds through a risk. Half his time is on the field of battle, and half of it on the bed of pain. And he does this for the sake of others; he defends us by it; we are indebted to him; we gain by his loss; we are at peace by his warfare."

 

Thank you for this gem which I will always remember.

 

With my love in Our Lord,

William

 

PS. Newman's clarity of thought and his writing are so very fine! I would share with you a passage I quoted at the RCIA's introduction to the meaning of life and the existence of God:

 

“I am far of course from denying that every article of the Christian Creed is beset with intellectual difficulties; and it is simple fact, that, for myself, I cannot answer those difficulties. Many persons are very sensitive of the difficulties of Religion; I am as sensitive of them as any one; but I have never been able to see a connexion between apprehending those difficulties, however keenly, and multiplying them to any extent, and on the other hand doubting the doctrines to which they are attached. Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. Of all points of faith, the being of a God is, to my own apprehension, encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power."

From: Fr Donald <domdonald@sacmus.org>
To: williamwardle2bp@btinternet.com
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 21:34

Subject: [Dom Donald's Blog] Christmas Season Day 17 The Three Offices of Christ (Newman) Night Office from the Monastic Lectionary.

Second Reading: From a sermon by Cardinal John Henry Newman
 (Sermons bearing  on the Subject of the Day, Sermon V. “pp.52-62)

Sermon 5. The Three Offices of Christ    

"Full of grace are Thy lips, because God hath blessed Thee for ever. Gird Thee with Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O Thou most mighty, according to Thy worship and renown." Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

[Note] {52} OUR Lord is here spoken of in two distinct characters. As a teacher,—"Full of grace are Thy lips;" and as a conqueror,—"Gird Thee with Thy sword upon Thy thigh;" or, in other words, as a Prophet and as a King. His third special office, which is brought before us prominently at this season, is that of a Priest, in that He offered Himself up to God the Father as a propitiation for our sins. These are the three chief views which are vouchsafed to us of His Mediatorial office; and it is often observed that none before Him has, even in type or resemblance, borne all three characters. Melchizedek, for instance, was a priest and a king, but not a prophet. David was prophet and king, but not a priest. Jeremiah was priest and prophet, but not a king. Christ was Prophet, Priest, and King.

He is spoken of as a prophet by Moses, as a prophet {53} like, but superior, to himself.—"A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear." And Jacob had already described Him as a king, when he said, "Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." Balaam, too, speaks of Him as a conqueror and great sovereign.—"There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel ... Out of Jacob shall come He that shall have dominion." And David speaks of Him as a priest, but not a priest like Aaron.—"Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek;" that is, a royal priest, which Aaron was not. And again, the very first prophecy of all ran, "He shall bruise thy head (that is, the serpent's), and thou shalt bruise His heel." [Acts vii. 37. Gen. xlix. 10. Numb. xxiv. 17, 19. Ps. cx. 4. Gen. iii. 15.] He was to conquer through suffering.

Christ exercised His prophetical office in teaching, and in foretelling the future;—in His sermon on the Mount, in His parables, in His prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem. He performed the priest's service when He died on the Cross, as a sacrifice; and when He consecrated the bread and the cup to be a feast upon that sacrifice; and now that He intercedes for us at the right hand of God. And He showed Himself as a conqueror, and a king, in rising from the dead, in ascending into heaven, in sending down the Spirit of grace, in converting the nations, and in forming His Church to receive and to rule them. ...................

Newman Reader — Works of John Henry Newman
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Christmass Weekday January 11, Day 18

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/seasons/christmas/christmas_days18.cfmm   January 11, Christmas Weekday Christmas Day 18 In Mexico El Día de Los Tres Reyes (Day of the Three Kings) celebrates the arrival of Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar at the place of Jesus' birth. The day is also known as El Día de Los Reyes Magos (Magi) in Spanish and Epiphany in English commemorates the divinity of Christ as manifested to the Magi, the kings who brought him gifts. On the night before El Día de Los Reyes, the children fill their shoes with hay and leave them outside. It is believed that the Wise Men will stop at each home to feed their horses, leaving gifts in exchange for hay. Finally, El Día de Los Reyes arrives, and the whole family wakes up to open the gifts left by the Three Kings. However, this is only the beginning. On that day, family and friends gather, while the children keep busy playing with their new toys. The adults continue with the day's activities by preparing a big dinner and serving a very special dessert, a bread known as La Rosca de Reyes or Three Kings Bread. — by Frances Chaparro, Estela Muñoz and Adrian Zamilpa Day Eighteen activity (Los Posadas) Day Eighteen recipe (La Rosca de Reyes)

January 11 - Christmas Weekday

Christmas Weekday

1 John 5:5-13  +  Psalm 147  +  Luke 5:12-16

January 11, 2013

“So there are three who testify, the Spirit, the water, and the Blood.”  [1 John 5:7-8]

                                                                                                            

The Christmas Season is a time of beginnings.  During Christmastide we hear a great deal in the Sacred Liturgy from the writings of the Beloved Disciple.  St. John the Evangelist outlived all the other apostles.  The Blessed Mother, who had been entrusted to his care on Calvary, had completed her earthly life.  As he writes his Gospel account and epistles, then, he stresses the fundamentals.

If St. John’s epistles sound at times like he’s repeating himself, perhaps he knew that repetition is the key to learning.  He’s hammering home a message with eternal consequences:  the Good News of Jesus Christ.

In today’s First Reading, St. John speaks of “testimony” about the divine Person of Jesus.  He says something intriguing:  that “there are three who testify, the Spirit, the water, and the Blood.”  More than one Church Father suggests these three refer to the Trinity.  Perhaps it’s an imaginative leap, but whatever St. John’s literal intention in writing these words, we could apply his words to the three Sacraments that initiate a human person into the Body of the Church.  Confirmation, Baptism and the Eucharist initiate one into the life of Jesus Christ, and through Him into the communion of the Trinity.  Say a prayer of thanksgiving today for having received the gifts of Baptism and Confirmation, and resolve during the month ahead to attend daily Mass whenever possible.

Comment: Night Office Christmas Season Wed.9th Jan 2013

John Henry Newman - Online

All of us are bound, according to our opportunities,—first to learn the truth; and moreover, we must not only know, but we must impart our knowledge. Nor only so, but next we must bear witness to the truth. We must not be afraid of the frowns or anger of the world, or mind its ridicule. If so be, we must be willing to suffer for the truth. This was that new thing that Christ brought into the world, a heavenly doctrine, a system of holy and supernatural truths, which are to be received and transmitted, for He is our Prophet, maintained even unto suffering after His pattern, who is our Priest, and obeyed, for He is our King.

Christmas Season Day 17 The Three Offices of Christ (Newman)

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Christmas Day 17

January 10, Christmas Weekday Every country in the world has its own Christmas customs. Christmas in Australia is often very hot. Whereas the northern hemisphere is in the middle of winter, Australians are baking in summer heat. It is not unusual to have Christmas Day well into the mid 30 degrees Celsius, or near 100 degrees Fahrenheit. A traditional meal includes a turkey dinner, with ham, and pork. A flaming Christmas plum pudding is added for dessert. In the Australian gold rushes, Christmas puddings often contained a gold nugget. Today a small favor is baked inside. Whoever finds this knows that they will enjoy good luck. Another treat is Mince Pies. It is Father Christmas who brings the presents to the Australian children on Christmas Eve. Homes and gardens are decorated with greenery, Christmas tree and fairy lights. Seasonal plants are the Christmas bush and the Christmas bell. January 10 - Christmas Weekday Christmas Weekday 1 John 4:19—5:4  +  Psalm 72  +  Luke 4:14-22 January 10, 2013 “He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.”  [Luke 4:15] The secular world attempts to flatten the Christian Faith into something two-dimensional.  Attacks make clear that what’s really being attack is a straw-man that bears little resemblance to the fullness of the Faith.  For example, Christmas is reduced to a day of remembering Jesus’ birth. Christmas is a season, of course, rather than a day.  It begins not on the day after Halloween, but on the day of Christ’s Nativity.  The Church’s Christmas Season celebrates five mysteries, concluding with the Baptism of the Lord (according to the modern Church calendar, which excludes the Presentation of the Lord from the season).  The Christmas Season leads to the threshold of Jesus’ public ministry. Today’s Gospel passage, in fact, occurs in the chapter following the account of Jesus’ baptism, immediately after his forty days of temptation in the wilderness.  Jesus is presented as a great teacher:  “all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.”  But the Gospel passage we hear today at Mass doesn’t give us “the rest of the story”.  Jesus just couldn’t leave well enough alone:  by the time he finished speaking, “the people in the synagogue… were all filled with fury.”  If you and I are called to teach the Faith by our example (if not our words), then we may receive praise, but more likely we will face rejection.    http://reflectionsonthesacredliturgy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01 /january-10-christmas-weekday.html

 Christmas Season Wednesday Year 1

Night Office from the Monastic Lectionary.

Second Reading: From a sermon by Cardinal John Henry Newman
 (Sermons bearing  on the Subject of the Day, Sermon V. “pp.52-62)

Sermon 5. The Three Offices of Christ    

"Full of grace are Thy lips, because God hath blessed Thee for ever. Gird Thee with Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O Thou most mighty, according to Thy worship and renown." Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

[Note] {52} OUR Lord is here spoken of in two distinct characters. As a teacher,—"Full of grace are Thy lips;" and as a conqueror,—"Gird Thee with Thy sword upon Thy thigh;" or, in other words, as a Prophet and as a King. His third special office, which is brought before us prominently at this season, is that of a Priest, in that He offered Himself up to God the Father as a propitiation for our sins. These are the three chief views which are vouchsafed to us of His Mediatorial office; and it is often observed that none before Him has, even in type or resemblance, borne all three characters. Melchizedek, for instance, was a priest and a king, but not a prophet. David was prophet and king, but not a priest. Jeremiah was priest and prophet, but not a king. Christ was Prophet, Priest, and King.

He is spoken of as a prophet by Moses, as a prophet {53} like, but superior, to himself.—"A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear." And Jacob had already described Him as a king, when he said, "Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." Balaam, too, speaks of Him as a conqueror and great sovereign.—"There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel ... Out of Jacob shall come He that shall have dominion." And David speaks of Him as a priest, but not a priest like Aaron.—"Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek;" that is, a royal priest, which Aaron was not. And again, the very first prophecy of all ran, "He shall bruise thy head (that is, the serpent's), and thou shalt bruise His heel." [Acts vii. 37. Gen. xlix. 10. Numb. xxiv. 17, 19. Ps. cx. 4. Gen. iii. 15.] He was to conquer through suffering.

Christ exercised His prophetical office in teaching, and in foretelling the future;—in His sermon on the Mount, in His parables, in His prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem. He performed the priest's service when He died on the Cross, as a sacrifice; and when He consecrated the bread and the cup to be a feast upon that sacrifice; and now that He intercedes for us at the right hand of God. And He showed Himself as a conqueror, and a king, in rising from the dead, in ascending into heaven, in sending down the Spirit of grace, in converting the nations, and in forming His Church to receive and to rule them.

Further, let it be observed, that these three offices seem to contain in them and to represent the three {54} principal conditions of mankind; for one large class of men, or aspect of mankind, is that of sufferers,—such as slaves, the oppressed, the poor, the sick, the bereaved, the troubled in mind; another is, of those who work and toil, who are full of business and engagements, whether for themselves or for others; and a third is that of the studious, learned, and wise. Endurance, active life, thought,—these are the three perhaps principal states in which men find themselves. Christ undertook them all. On one occasion He said, with reference to His baptism in Jordan, "This it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." [Matt. iii. 15.] Every holy rite of the law did He go through for our sakes. And so too did He live through all states of man's life up to a perfect man, infancy, childhood, boyhood, youth, maturity, that He might be a pattern of them all. And so too did He take man's perfect nature on Him, body, and soul, and reason, that He might sanctify it wholly. And therefore in like manner did He unite in Himself, and renew, and give us back in Him, the principal lots or states in which we find ourselves,—suffering, that we might know how to suffer; labouring, that we might know how to labour; and teaching, that we might know how to teach.   

January 9 - Christmas Weekday - Reflections on the Liturgy

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January 9, Christmas Weekday St. Francis initiated the beautiful practice of displaying a Christmas crib or creche. He built it in a cave on a bleak mountain near the village of Greccio. News of what he was doing spread all over the countryside and a steady stream of men, women and chldren came by night carrying torches and candles to light their way. Christmas Creche "It seemed like midday," wrote someone who was there, "during that midnight filled with gladness for man and beast, and the crowds drawing near, so happy to be present for the renewal of the eternal mystery." Francis himself sang the Gospel story in a voice which was "strong and sweet and clear," says the observer. "Then he preached to the people, most movingly, about the birth of the poor King in little Bethlehem." — Excerpted from Christmas Day Sixteen activity (St. Francis and the Creche) _________________________________________________ http://reflectionsonthesacredliturgy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/january-9-christmas-weekday.html  January 9 - Christmas Weekday Christmas Weekday 1 John 4:11-18  +  Psalm 72  +  Mark 6:45-52 January 9, 2013 “Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.” [Psalm 72:11] In his account of the “Wise Men from the East” who visit the Holy Family and present gifts to the baby Jesus, St. Matthew the Evangelist alludes to today’s Responsorial Psalm.  In fact, the same psalm was proclaimed this past Sunday on the Solemnity of the Epiphany. and out of the six “weekday Masses” this year between the Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord,  three of them proclaim this same Psalm 72  for their Responsorial. We might first think that the connection between Psalm 72 and the Epiphany is the psalm’s reference to kings bringing “tribute” and “gifts” to the king of Israel.  But that would be putting the cart before the horse.  The larger truth to which this psalm points is the universality of the king of Israel’s reign, and through this, the reign of Christ the King. On the more practical level of your own spiritual life, the universality of Jesus’ kingdom might provoke certain questions for reflection.  “Do I ever consider anyone outside the reach of God’s love?  Would I be happy for some particular person to be excluded by God from His merciful embrace?  Do I forgive those who trespass against me in the same way that I hope the Father will forgive me?”