{"id":6148,"date":"2019-02-14T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:15:16","slug":"st-tikhon-of-moscow-on-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6148","title":{"rendered":"St Tikhon of Moscow on Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2d92j\" data-offset-key=\"ciip7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ciip7-0-0\">&#8220;\u2026we will approach the sacrament of Penance and ask the Lord to forgive our sins, which forgiveness will be granted us only if we ourselves forgive each other. &#8220;If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.&#8221;(Matt. 6) Yet it is said to be extremely difficult to forgive discourtesy and to forget disrespect. Perhaps our selfish nature finds it truly difficult to forgive disrespect, even though in the words of the Holy Fathers it is easier to forgive than to seek revenge. Yet everything in us that is good is not accomplished easily, but with difficulty, compulsion and effort. &#8220;The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.&#8221;(Matt. 11. 12) For this reason we should not be discouraged at the difficulty of this pious act, but should rather seek the means to its fulfillment. The Holy Church offers many means towards this end, and of them we will dwell on the one which most corresponds to the forthcoming season of repentance. &#8220;Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions and not to judge my brother.&#8221; The source of forgiving our neighbors, of not judging them, is included in seeing (acknowledging) our sins.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2d92j\" data-offset-key=\"f48hr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f48hr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f48hr-0-0\"> ~ Homily During Lent<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2d92j\" data-offset-key=\"8fs3l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8fs3l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8fs3l-0-0\">***Now and then we include a particularly thought provoking or inspiring excerpt not from an \u2018Elder\u2019***<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"8fs3l-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6149\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/250061.b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/250061.b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/250061.b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/250061.b-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/250061.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026we will approach the sacrament of Penance and ask the Lord to forgive our sins, which forgiveness will be granted us only if we ourselves forgive each other. &#8220;If ye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}