Why Is It So Hard to Forgive Yourself?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As Catholics, we believe in the forgiveness of our sins through the graces of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. But often, even though we are absolved but we can struggle to forgive ourselves for our past faults and failings.
Today, Fr. Mike shares the main reason why we struggle to let go of the past and surrender to God who is our loving Father.
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| 0:00.0 | I just think, gosh, Lord, if only things were different, but then he reminds me, but things |
| 0:05.8 | aren't different. |
| 0:07.3 | This is true. |
| 0:08.3 | This is reality. |
| 0:09.3 | You need to face it. |
| 0:10.4 | And so, I have to. |
| 0:12.3 | How many times father Mike Schmitz and this is a sentient presence? |
| 0:23.5 | So someone asked me the other day, they said, you know, Father, I bend to confession. |
| 0:26.9 | I know that God has forgiven me. |
| 0:28.5 | I know that I've been restored to his grace, but I'm having a tough time forgiving myself. |
| 0:35.9 | I don't know if you've ever been in that position where you find it just really difficult |
| 0:39.7 | to forgive yourself, but that's really common. |
| 0:41.9 | It's incredibly common. |
| 0:42.9 | No, with this particular person who brought this up to me, I wanted to affirm a couple |
| 0:48.2 | things. |
| 0:49.2 | One is I wanted to affirm the fact that they were willing to trust in the power of Jesus |
| 0:53.6 | Christ in the sacrament of reconciliation, that they were willing to trust in the love |
| 0:57.0 | of God for them to be able to say, yes, I can come to God in my brokenness and my woundedness |
| 1:01.7 | and my death being dead in my sins. |
| 1:04.4 | And he actually desires to lift me up. |
| 1:06.9 | He desires to forgive me. |
| 1:08.3 | This is true for you too. |
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