{"id":4227,"date":"2025-10-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:03:23","slug":"forgiven-and-forgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/10\/11\/forgiven-and-forgiving\/benedictine-spirituality\/4227\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiven and Forgiving."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today I\u2019m reflecting on forgiveness. It\u2019s central to our human experience. Both our need to be forgiven and our need to forgive are deeply rooted in the reality of our daily lives, in both big and small things. It\u2019s impossible to live connected to other people without at some point needing to both forgive and be forgiven.

This reality is reflected all the way through Scripture. As we continue to celebrate the jubilee of consecrated life, I\u2019m reflecting on these words from the Our Father:

\u201cForgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us.\u201d<\/em>

These words are so familiar that we sometimes overlook their significance. Yet, they have the power bring the healing that can reset our broken relationships.

St Benedict recognises this when he says that the Our Father should be said by the superior at Lauds and Vespers \u201cbecause thorns of contention are likely to spring up\u201d. It allows us to acknowledge before God that, whatever our intentions, we will have been hurt by others in the course of the day, and we will have hurt them.

St Benedict wanted the community to be reminded regularly both of their need for forgiveness and their need to forgive others in the course of their daily life.

These two are intimately linked. We begin by acknowledging our own need for forgiveness. When we know ourselves held in the loving forgiveness of God then we are able to reach out and offer forgiveness to the people who have wounded us.

Where are you being called to offer and accept forgiveness today?
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Today I\u2019m reflecting on forgiveness. It\u2019s central to our human experience. Both our need to be forgiven and our need to forgive are deeply rooted in the reality of our daily lives, in both big and small things. It\u2019s impossible to live connected to other people without at some point needing to both forgive and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,856,222,239,854,271,537,264,492,246],"tags":[28,18,223,203,448,58,6,8,858,33,229,13,29,15,665,215,10],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consecratelife","category-simplyjubilee","category-benedictine-spirituality","category-gospel","category-jubilee","category-lectio-divina","category-liturgy","category-monastic-life","category-rule-of-st-benedict","category-scripture","tag-benedictine","tag-challenge","tag-christlike","tag-disciple","tag-discipleship","tag-forgiveness","tag-gospel","tag-hope","tag-jubileeofconsecratedlife","tag-kingdom","tag-kingdomvalues","tag-lectiodivina","tag-love","tag-newlife","tag-ourfather","tag-ruleofstbenedict","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}