Episode Details

We reach the last day of our pilgrimage and face a sharper question than how far we climbed: what are we willing to surrender beneath the cross. We get painfully specific about resentment and forgiveness, and we come to Jesus in the Eucharist asking for mercy that actually sets us free. 
• the difference between climbing toward the cross and placing something beneath it 
• how knowledge can inflate pride while love builds up 
• why “love your enemies” is a command not a slogan 
• naming the person we still punish in our imagination 
• what forgiveness is not: excusing evil, erasing justice, restoring trust on demand 
• what forgiveness is: surrendering the case to God and refusing to be shaped by the wound 
• mercy as God’s pattern of love revealed on the cross 
• bringing the tender wound to the Eucharist without pretending 
Open your hearts, give it to Jesus, and let him begin at the last to set you free.

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