A certainty or an excuse?

Editorial Staff

Some time ago I came across this sentence of Father Ghislain Lafont: “God is mercy and we are allowed to be human”, and I liked it very much. I am an old woman, and when I was a child, I was taught the fear of God, of his judgment for every slightest infraction. Growing up and having the good fortune to live in a parish run by the Salesians, I learned that God is above all a father and forgives our faults if we have understood them well and are willing not to repeat them. I’m sure that our young people would also like this sentence very much, but seeing how most of them grow up and live in this time, I wonder if they wouldn’t use it as an excuse to live in their own way, since God forgives everything because He loves us. A.C. My dear friend, surely you have never seen—just like me!—the Most High, Almighty Lord and God chasing some evildoer, criminal or infidel... On the contrary, the presence of God in the lives of all his children is a discreet presence that some might classify as an “absence”. In reality, the Lord is present in…