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🗓️ 14 September 2020
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Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
There is no forgiveness without justice.
Forgiveness is neither excusing nor enabling evil. There is always a debt that needs to be paid…and somebody needs to pay it.
Matthew 18:21-35
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0:00.0 | So, two years and one week ago today, |
0:07.0 | who was September 6th, 2018, was just the day of tragedy. |
0:15.0 | In Arkansas, there was a man, a 26 year old man, |
0:19.0 | who was a Christian, a worship leader, |
0:23.0 | and in his church, he was in his apartment by himself, |
0:26.0 | just watching a football game late at night and eating ice cream. |
0:32.0 | And a woman, an off-duty police officer, |
0:36.0 | entered his apartment and shot and killed him. |
0:42.0 | His name was Botham John. |
0:46.0 | The woman who killed him, name's Amber, Amber Geiger. |
0:50.0 | Amber lived in the apartment below Botham. |
0:54.0 | And she was coming home from being on duty, |
0:57.0 | and she thought she was in her own apartment. |
1:00.0 | And she thought that the man who was standing in the hallway |
1:02.0 | was a burglar standing in her hallway. |
1:06.0 | But he wasn't. |
1:08.0 | He was innocent. |
1:10.0 | And she took his life. |
1:14.0 | And in so many ways, you know, the response |
1:16.0 | when people found out about this was justifiable, anger, |
1:19.0 | righteous anger. |
1:22.0 | There were people who were angry at what seemed to be police malfeasance. |
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