Forgive and gain peace of soul – Pope Francis

 

Message from Pope Francis

“There is no perfect family. We don’t have perfect parents, we are not perfect, we don’t get married, with a perfect person nor do we have perfect kids. We have complaints of each other. We were disappointed to each other. Therefore, there is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of forgiveness. Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual survival. Without forgiveness, the family becomes a theatre of conflict and a bastion of grievances.

Without forgiveness the family gets sick. Forgiveness vitalises the soul, by cleaning the mind liberating the heart. Who does not forgive has no peace of soul or communion with God.

The pain is a poison that intoxicates and kills. Heal a wound of the heart if it is a self-destructive gesture. Who does not forgive sickens himself physically, emotionally and spiritually. That’s why the family has to be a place of life and not of death;  the territory of healing and not of disease; stage of forgiveness and not of guilt. Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow produced pain and healing, where pain caused disease”