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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in our Gospel
today Jesus heals a paralytic, but not before first forgiving his<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> sins</span>: 
</b></span>"<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>People brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw 
their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, child, your <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sins</span> are 
forgiven.’"</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus read <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the hearts of scribes who had decided <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">he</span> was 
blaspheming,</span> and so he replied</span>, "Which is easier, to say, ‘Your <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sins</span> are
 forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk?’" When no reply came, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus</span> sent 
the man off home carrying his stretcher.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">The
 story</span> affirms that Jesus offers us forgiveness and healing.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Even though
 we</span> are sinners, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">even though we </span>are hopeless in our hatred and 
stupidity, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">even though we</span> had gone (and would still go today) to the 
limits of killing <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God’s own son, God </span>still <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">loves</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us;</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God still forgives </span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">us</span>. </b></span>We know that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>nothing </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>can
possibly separate </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>us</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> from</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the love of God </b></span>because we hear in the 
greeting of the risen Jesus that<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> any and every sin<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>can be forgiven.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>

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