What Can You Do When Another Won't Forgive?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
You said an unkind word or reacted rashly. You feel terrible because it was directed at someone you love. When you ask for their forgiveness the wound they feel is too raw and they don't accept your apology. What can you do?
Today, Fr. Mike shares a word of challenge and encouragement on how to exercise the virtue of patience and show mercy as you wait to be forgiven.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What do I do when I know how to give forgiveness? |
| 0:02.8 | I think we do our best with that. |
| 0:04.8 | What happens though? |
| 0:06.1 | What I'm asking for forgiveness |
| 0:07.8 | and there's no forgiveness that's being offered. |
| 0:09.3 | What do I do then? |
| 0:10.1 | What do I do? |
| 0:11.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:12.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:13.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:14.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:15.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:18.0 | How my name's Father Mike Smith |
| 0:19.0 | and this is essential presents. |
| 0:20.1 | So someone asked me this question. |
| 0:21.8 | They told me a story. |
| 0:22.6 | And in their story, they shared how they were close |
| 0:24.6 | with someone at one point. |
| 0:25.8 | And what they had done is they had uttered |
| 0:28.5 | kind of some cruel words, right? |
| 0:29.6 | They uttered some words in their own hurt |
| 0:31.9 | and their own anger. |
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