Mutual forgiveness

 An integral part of marital spirituality. We all belong to a sinful world, a world in which vengeance grows seven fold. But Christ has introduced us into a world in which forgiveness grows without limit. Living together with our differences which at manifest itself as alienation, we tend to offend or hurt one another. If it is the love of Christ that has united the couple in the married life, the element of mutual forgiveness must be an integral part of their life together. God has forgiven us all; it now remains for us to forgive one another in order to complete the redemptive work of Christ. The redeemed Christian family will be one in which this horizontal forgiveness and reconciliation is constantly operative.