05/27/2026
The Lord's Prayer offers the words: "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Even on the cross, some of Jesus's last words were about forgiveness: "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34). And of course, in this century, Archbishop Desmond Tutu not only wrote his book, No Future Without Forgiveness, but he also showed a country and a world by word and deed the importance of forgiveness as part of reconciliation.
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