The Price of Forgiveness
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes saying sorry just isn’t enough.
Chances are that you can remember a time you hurt someone through your actions. Maybe it was just missing something important to them, or letting your words slip to someone else, but whatever you did cost them something. And when your mistakes lead to someone in your life losing something, saying you’re sorry just isn’t enough.
Today, Fr. Mike explains why we have to ask people for forgiveness and not just say we’re sorry.
For more on reconciliation from Fr. Mike—and Fr. Josh Johnson—be sure to check out their Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
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| 0:00.0 | Nope. |
| 0:02.0 | I can't dance. |
| 0:03.0 | I mean, I can dance a little bit. |
| 0:04.0 | I can do the... |
| 0:05.0 | Bye, bye, bye, whatever. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:18.0 | I have this issue. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a problem. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a personality flaw, character flaw, and that is that I am not always on time. |
| 0:25.0 | If someone cancels on appointment with me or they show up late to the appointment, |
| 0:29.0 | I'm going to say 9.9 times out of 10. |
| 0:32.0 | I am completely 100% okay with that because that means I'm not late. |
| 0:37.0 | It means I didn't cancel. |
| 0:38.0 | It means that I'm where I should be because I have this... |
| 0:42.0 | Again, character flaw where I am often late. |
| 0:45.0 | And what happened a little while back is I was late for Sunday Mass. |
| 0:48.0 | It wasn't like really, really late, but it was late enough that the lecture got... |
| 0:53.0 | the lecture got up to say, we're still on time. |
| 0:56.0 | You're at the right mass, but waiting for the priest still. |
| 0:58.0 | And I was like, gosh, I could hear him because I was coming in. |
| 1:00.0 | Anyways, long story short, when I got in front of everybody, you know, |
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