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1 Intro | kneel before God and implore forgiveness for the past and present
2 Intro | 5).”2 ~The requests for forgiveness made by the Bishop of Rome
3 Intro | form of the requests for forgiveness for the faults of the past.~
4 Intro | conditions of the requests for forgiveness (Chapter 3). The precise
5 Intro | offended us. This offer of forgiveness appears particularly meaningful
6 1, 1 | context, both sacramental forgiveness and the remission of temporal
7 1 (5) | the “year of expiation, forgiveness and redemption, of grace,
8 1, 1 | precedents for requests for forgiveness by the Magisterium for past
9 1, 3 | John Paul II’s Requests for Forgiveness~Not only did John Paul II
10 1, 3 | also extended a request for forgiveness to a multitude of historical
11 1 (18)| predecessor Paul VI in asking forgiveness.”~
12 1 (19)| to the Moravians, asked “forgiveness, on behalf of all Catholics,
13 1 (19)| act of expiation” and ask forgiveness of the Indians of Latin
14 1 (19)| earlier he had already asked forgiveness from the Africans for the
15 1, 3 | past and of possibly asking forgiveness from one’s contemporaries,26
16 1, 3 | repent in his place or ask forgiveness in his name.” Sin is therefore
17 1, 4 | communities are today asking forgiveness for episodes or historical
18 1, 4 | groups might demand that forgiveness be sought in their regard,
19 1, 4 | extent to which requests for forgiveness for past wrongs, especially
20 2, 1 | corresponding requests for forgiveness can be found throughout
21 2, 1 | to address requests for forgiveness to present interlocutors
22 2, 1 | to require a request for forgiveness from those peoples or from
23 2, 1 | any possible request for forgiveness.36 The experiences of maltreatment
24 2 (36)| question of a request for forgiveness addressed to them (and/or
25 2, 1 | their example and also asks forgiveness for the historical sins
26 2 (37)| betrayal, felt no need to ask forgiveness for the killing of defenseless
27 2, 2 | theme of reconciliation and forgiveness of faults. Jesus asks his
28 2, 2 | himself always offers his forgiveness: “Forgive us our trespasses
29 2, 2 | understood his own need for forgiveness by God. The disciple is
30 2, 2 | the person may not ask for forgiveness (cf. Mt 18:21-22).~With
31 2, 2 | canceling the offense through forgiveness offered “from the heart” (
32 2, 2 | before God, who never refuses forgiveness sincerely entreated. In
33 2, 2 | past in order to ask for forgiveness. This might be explained
34 3, 3 | goodness and capacity for forgiveness. Thanks to the bond established
35 3, 4 | wrongs and requests for forgiveness. For the entire Church,
36 3, 4 | earnestly beseech Christ’s forgiveness.”63~
37 4, 2 | the Church’s request for forgiveness commits the single theological
38 5, 1 | morality, the request for forgiveness always presupposes an admission
39 5, 1 | In this sense, asking for forgiveness presupposes a contemporaneity
40 5, 1 | through imploring God’s forgiveness for the wrongs of the past,
41 5, 1 | wants life and not death, forgiveness and not condemnation, love
42 5, 1 | the numerous requests for forgiveness formulated by John Paul
43 5, 3 | violated. The request for forgiveness applies to whatever should
44 5, 5 | also, and above all, in the forgiveness of sins. In addition, recalling
45 5, 5 | to the request for God’s forgiveness that opens the way for mutual
46 6, 2 | an ecclesial request for forgiveness? A number of aspects can
47 6, 2 | addressed by any request for forgiveness is God and that any human
48 6, 2 | involved in the request for forgiveness – both the subjects and
49 6, 3 | notions of repentance and forgiveness in the minds of those with
50 6, 3 | mercy and the source of forgiveness, in addition to explaining
51 6, 3 | alien to the idea of seeking forgiveness, the theological and spiritual
52 6, 3 | the Church’s requests for forgiveness, as well as to the consequent
53 6, 3 | states: “The request for forgiveness…primarily concerns the life
54 6, 3 | guided by the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation exemplified
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