{"id":2293,"date":"2017-11-29T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=2293"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:11:50","slug":"introduction-need-forgiveness-advent-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/introduction-need-forgiveness-advent-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Our Need of Forgiveness &#8211; Advent 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/udqo886-1-0?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Johnnette talks about forgiveness and how it is a key to a healthier and happier life. She gives points that we can take for us to ask God for the grace and desire for forgiveness and reminds us that we are all capable to forgive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2017-advent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/audio\/02%20-%20Johnnette%20Benkovic%20-%20The%20Sacrifice%20of%20Forgiveness.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Benkovic-An-Introduction-to-Forgiveness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Johnnette-The-Sacrifice-of-Forgiveness-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cForgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. The measure of such a decision is the love of God who draws us to himself in spite of our sin. It has its perfect exemplar in the forgiveness of Christ, who on the Cross prayed: \u2018Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do\u2019 (Lk 23:34). <\/p><cite><em>Blessed John Paul II; Message for World Day of Peace 2002<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Johnnette shares that, \u201cthe greatest sacrifice that we can make to God is through an act of humility of forgiveness.\u201d This is a good time to do an inventory of those individuals whom you need to forgive. Consider whether you have justified your anger towards them, and whether you\u2019ve felt bitterness and resentment towards them. Have you played a part in the anger you carry in your heart by not forgiving them?<br><br><\/li><li>When we breed resentment and bitterness in our heart, and we allow it to grow, we become cold-hearted. This affects every relationship we have, and most importantly, our relationship with God. How have you seen how your anger or unforgiveness has affected your other relationships? Have you noticed how it has hurt your relationship with the Lord?<br><br><\/li><li>What makes you resistant to forgiveness? How can you pray about that?<br><br><\/li><li>Forgiveness is not an emotion. It is a free-will action. We choose to forgive. And it\u2019s a choice that sets us free. How can you begin to forgive the people who have hurt you? You don\u2019t have to make too big of steps today. But consider what sort of little steps you can take to forgive.<br><br><\/li><li>Prayer moves us and enables us to receive the grace that we need to make that free-will action of forgiveness. Johnnette gives us a few examples of how to pray for our persecutor. Which one are you able to pray?<br><br><\/li><li>Forgiveness is a process. It is often not a one-time thing. Johnnette suggests praying again and again, for our persecutor whenever ill-will rises up in our heart for them. If the person who hurt you comes to mind throughout this season of Advent, consider taking that as an opportunity to pray.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFather God, I pray for this person who not only caused me this thrust of the wound of the heart, but also for the way in which that\u2019s affected my perception of the world and who I am in it; for the way in which itt has affected the way in which I approach others; the way in which it has caused me perhaps to be rebellious in certain ways, or afraid of authority, or whatever the case may be\u2026. I desire to forgive this person for that too. I desire to desire to forgive that person too. I desire to desire to desire to forgive that person too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Text: An Introduction to Our Need of Forgiveness <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Waiting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello everyone. I\u2019m Johnnette Benkovic, back with you again as we continue to make our way through Advent. Well here we are, we\u2019re in the second week of Advent. Isn\u2019t it hard to imagine that we\u2019re already at this point in time? The last time that we were together, we were talking about the beautiful reality of this great gift of preparation that is ours during this Advent season, and we talked about the attitude of waiting, and the spirituality of waiting, and how it is that we wait with expectant hope, with faith, how it is that we wait with this patient, and how it is that we wait through the activity of the process that is unfolding within us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also talked about the way in which we should wait, what it is that we should do during that time of waiting, and we referenced our Blessed Lady, and the fact that she pondered all of these things in her heart as she waited. Waited with joy and expectant faith for the coming of the Christ child, waited through those 30 years of that hidden life in Nazareth with Him, and then waited through those 3 years of public ministry, knowing that ultimately His mission would be fulfilled. And we mentioned that this pondering of our Blessed Lady was not some kind of just, you know, daydream that was taking place within her imagination, but rather it was a time of prayerful meditation. Looking at the hand of God moving through the events of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so I encouraged you, as well myself, to make use of this beautiful season of Advent, to be one in which we fortify and strengthen our life of prayer. If you remember, I mentioned to you that this prayer is meant to mark every day of our lives obviously. But it is in prayer that we truly enter into the divine life, and the divine life enters into us. And it\u2019s there in prayer that we can experience this movement of grace that\u2019s already happening within us. That the promise that is given to us in this <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/isaiah-96-titles-jesus-advent-2017\/\">Advent season for the coming of our Lord Jesus<\/a> Christ has already been fulfilled, and we can look at how that\u2019s happening in that moment. But also to look forward to this new time, this new arrival of Christ, who desires to give us more gifts, more opportunity to enter into the divine life, more experience of grace flooding our souls and radiating out from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inventory for Forgiveness<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, we mentioned also that this time of Advent has a penitential character to it, and I shared with you that this has been with Advent from its very inception. It\u2019s not as strict as a penitential notion as we find certainly in the liturgical season of Lent, but nonetheless it is part of this season. And so we should be looking at ways in which we can enter into a type of sacrificial offering to the Lord. And when we think about the great reality of the day and time in which we live, and the way in which so many personal relationships are convoluted at this moment, it reminds us that perhaps the greatest sacrifice that we can make to God is through an act of humility of forgiveness. And this second week of Advent, I think, is a good time for us to begin to perhaps do an inventory, an inventory of those individual whom we need to forgive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s an interesting thing, because there\u2019s not a person in the world who has not experienced some kind of difficult moment through the actions of another against them. This is the human condition. We are all broken and fallen people. We have hurt others, and others have hurt us as well. And perhaps one of the greatest wounds of the heart is that wound of being betrayed by another, perhaps abandoned by another, perhaps rejected by another. Father Richard McAlear tells us that these 3 wounds of the heart are the common wounds to the heart that everyone has experienced. And there is a tendency when we have suffered through the hands of another to permit ourselves to fall into the idea that we are justified in our anger toward that individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you know my dear friends, that attitude does not come from God. That attitude comes from the pit of hell. Because when we give way to an ongoing type of anger, it breathes noxious fruits in our souls. It breathes, if you will, the bitter fruit of resentment and bitterness, which ultimately lead to a hardness of heart. Extended perhaps in a brutal way towards the person that\u2019s injured us, but ultimately affecting all of our relationships, including our relationship with God. And the interesting thing about this is that this kind of ongoing fueling of the fire of anger within us is experienced in the very reality of our physicality. High blood pressure, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease. All of these kinds of things are often the result of lack of forgiveness. Many autoimmune disorders, caused by lack of forgiveness, because there is a biochemical reaction to hostility of heart that, through the release of hormones in our brain, or the lack of release of hormones in our brain, causes our immune systems to break down. And I look at all of these autoimmune disorders that are out there today and it causes me to wonder if it isn\u2019t because we are resistant to forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So as you, you know, think about this, and you\u2019re doing that little mental inventory that I asked you to do, ask yourself a deep question: Have you forgiven? Maybe you say no. Maybe you say \u201cNo, I haven\u2019t. I don\u2019t want to. I\u2019m not going to.\u201d And maybe part of the reason for that is because you have a faulty notion of what forgiveness is. We live in a day and time that\u2019s relegated by emotion, and sometimes we think \u201cWell, you know, I don\u2019t feel forgiveness, therefore I haven\u2019t forgiven.\u201d Or, you know, \u201cBecause of this pain and this injury to my heart, I cannot forgive. That emotion, that sense of forgiveness will never be mine towards this individual.\u201d But, you see, forgiveness is not an emotion. We don\u2019t feel forgiveness, or even feeling it in no way indicates that we have or have not forgiven. Forgiveness is truly a free will action. It\u2019s an action. We choose to forgive. It\u2019s a free will action prompted by grace that sets us free from the act that was perpetrated against us, and permits us to move freely once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lack of forgiveness, you see, binds us to the action that was committed against us. It holds us in place, you see. It holds us in place. And the only thing that can get us out of the place is forgiveness. And we begin to draw away from that which has caused us pain, and we begin to rise up in a brand new direction. It holds us in bondage. It\u2019s a free will action, and it comes through grace. And this is why Jesus tells us to pray for our persecutors. Do you remember that passage in Sacred Scripture? He says pray for our persecutors, because it\u2019s prayer that moves us and enables us to receive the grace that we need to make that free will action. And when we\u2019re praying, especially for those that have injured us, we are calling down abundant mercy from God, which fills our heart, and then can be extended to the other. It\u2019s a spiritual reality. It\u2019s a spiritual principle. And so the best way that we can enter into this free will action is by doing what Jesus says to do: Praying for our persecutor. Pray for that persecutor. And every time ill will in us rises up towards that individual, we pray yet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer For the Desire To Forgive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, this is a process, I want to tell you. Forgiveness is a process. And I mentioned earlier that sometimes we don\u2019t want to forgive. So we need to pray another way too. We need to pray for the desire to forgive. \u201cFather God, I pray for the desire to forgive.\u201d And if you say \u201cI can\u2019t even do that Johnnette. I cannot even pray for the desire to forgive,\u201d then we back it up a desire. \u201cFather God, I pray for the desire to desire to forgive.\u201d And if that\u2019s still too close, we can\u2019t do that either, we back it up one more desire. \u201cFather, I pray for the desire to desire to desire to forgive.\u201d And we back it up as many desires as we have to go until we\u2019re comfortable there, and we find a home there, and we find a place there, and we can begin to move forward from there. We find our starting point, and that\u2019s what it is. It\u2019s a start that can lead us forward in this process of forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important for us to also know that forgiveness does not mean that everything is now okay. It doesn\u2019t. There are some situations, circumstances, and individuals that are toxic. Bad for us. Not good. And so, therefore, reconciliation may not be an option. Forgiveness does not mean that everything is now okay. It doesn\u2019t mean that in some way we are lessening the sin that was committed against us. It doesn\u2019t mean that either. And it doesn\u2019t mean that there shouldn\u2019t be retribution, if necessary, for the action that was committed against us. No. It doesn\u2019t mean that either. It simply means that we employ the grace God gives us to move forward in the action, so that we might be freed from the sin that was perpetrated against us, and move forward in Him, and receive the healing that we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a process as well, because the Holy Spirit is going to begin to reveal to us, as we prayerfully enter into this forwarding of the grace of mercy, the Holy Spirit is going to deal with us in that wounded area. And we might see, through that eternal gaze, that we have indeed been affected deeply, and that this deep affecting has truly caused us to build up defense mechanisms, to perhaps view the world through that wound, which surely is a distorted gaze. We might see that we have acted out of that wound, maybe some of the dysfunctions that we experience are a result of that. Maybe we find that we overreact to situations where the provocation does not require that kind of intense response. And maybe we see that it\u2019s all rooted into this particular action that we experienced. And so what does Father God ask us to do? He asks us to heed the words of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray for our persecutor there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFather God, I pray for this person who not only caused me this thrust of the wound of the heart, but also for the way in which that\u2019s affected my perception of the world and who I am in it. For the way in which it\u2019s affected the way in which I approach others. The way in which it\u2019s caused me, perhaps, to be rebellious in certain ways, or afraid of authority, or whatever the case may be. I desire to forgive this person for that too. I desire to desire to forgive that person too. I desire to desire to desire to forgive that person too.\u201d You see, we move forward in the process of restoration and healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cooperation of Grace<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In Joel chapter 2, verse 25, we receive a beautiful, beautiful word from the Lord. The prophet tells us that God says He will restore what the locusts have eaten. This holy Advent season, God wants to work a process of restoration in you. And it requires your cooperation with grace, and that cooperation with grace is cooperation with the grace of forgiveness. Begin where you are, trust in the Lord, move forward. May His will be done in you. Until we are together again, I faithfully remain your sister in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">About Johnnette S. Benkovic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Johnnette-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1873 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Johnnette-Headshot.png 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Johnnette-Headshot-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-johnnette-s-benkovic\/\">Johnnette S. Benkovic<\/a>&nbsp;is Founder and President of Living His Life Abundantly\u00ae International, Inc., a Catholic evangelization apostolate with outreaches in television, radio, print, and internet communications <\/strong>. &nbsp;She is also Founder of Women of Grace\u00ae, a Catholic apostolate for Christian women that features a number of outreaches including conferences, curricula, study groups, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of being a non-practicing Catholic, Johnnette experienced a deep conversion back to her Catholic faith in 1981 and discerned a call to share the Gospel message through the media. &nbsp;She has been a consistent presence in Catholic radio since 1987 and in Catholic television since 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnnette is Executive Producer of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Women of Grace&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>television program, which is aired on EWTN internationally, Monday through Friday. The program discusses contemporary issues from a Catholic perspective. &nbsp;Johnnette is also host of&nbsp;<strong><em>Women of Grace Live<\/em><\/strong>, a one hour call-in radio talk show that also airs Monday through Friday. She is heard nationally on AM\/FM stations and internationally via short wave and satellite radio. For additional information about Living His Life Abundantly\u00ae International, Inc. and Women of Grace\u00ae, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenofgrace.com\/\">www.womenofgrace.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Johnnette is a popular conference speaker, retreat conductor, and seminar presenter, and has been published in major Catholic magazines. &nbsp;She is the author of several books including&nbsp;<strong>Full of Grace: &nbsp;Women and the Abundant Life<\/strong>&nbsp;(Servant),&nbsp;<strong>Grace-Filled Moments<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Living Life Abundantly: Stories of People Who Have Encountered God&nbsp;<\/strong>(Servant),&nbsp;<strong>Experience Grace in Abundance: Strategies for Your Spiritual Life<\/strong>&nbsp;(Sophia),&nbsp;<strong>The New Age Counterfeit<\/strong>&nbsp;(Queenship),&nbsp;<strong>Graceful Living: Meditations to Help You Grow Closer to God Day by Day<\/strong>&nbsp;(Sophia), and &nbsp;<strong>The Rosary: Your Weapon for Spiritual Warfare<\/strong>&nbsp;(Servant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnnette was married to her husband, Anthony, for nearly 34 years and became widowed in 2007. She is the mother of&nbsp;three adult children, two living, and has seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/An-Introduction-to-our-need-of-forgiveness-big-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/An-Introduction-to-our-need-of-forgiveness-big-image-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/An-Introduction-to-our-need-of-forgiveness-big-image-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/An-Introduction-to-our-need-of-forgiveness-big-image-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/An-Introduction-to-our-need-of-forgiveness-big-image-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-Bottom-Webpage-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-Bottom-Webpage-Image-1.jpg 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-Bottom-Webpage-Image-1-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Johnnette talks about forgiveness and how it is a key to a healthier and happier life. 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