AI OVERVIEW: Forgiveness has its roots in God and is our response to God's forgiveness of us; it is not denying harm, forgetting, or automatic reconciliation, but an act of the will to relinquish resentment and unjust judgment while extending undeserved compassion. Jesus' parable of the two debtors shows forgiveness at the heart of the gospel, a healing act that frees us from being defined by injury, and the path to forgive is to pray for the ability to forgive, even for those who hurt us. That healing comes from recognizing we are forgiven through Christ's cross, which liberates us from sin and death and makes possible the love that forgives our own tormentors.
YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION: Fr. Nagel's homily for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
