"UJUMBE WA PAPA FRANCIS KUHUSU FAMILIA(POPEFRANCIS'S MESSAGE ABOUT THE FAMILY"
"There is no perfect family. We
have no perfect parents, we are not perfect, do not get married to a
perfect person, neither do we have perfect children. We have complaints
about each other. We are disappointed by one another. 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 theater of
conflict and a bastion of grievances. Without forgiveness the family
becomes sick. Forgiveness is the sterilization of the soul, cleansing
the mind and the liberation of the heart. Anyone who does not forgive
has no peace of soul and communion with God. Pain is a poison that
intoxicates and kills. Maintaining a wound of the heart is a
self-destructive action. It is an autophagy. He who does not forgive
sickens physically, emotionally and spiritually. That is why the family
must be a place of life and not of death; an enclave of cure not of
disease; a stage of forgiveness and not of guilt. Forgiveness brings joy
where sorrow produced pain; and healing, where pain caused disease."
