Our parish bulletin has a weekly column, the authorship of which rotates around among the priests, the parish staff, the deacons and deacon wives. My turn happened to come up for this coming weekend. I've pasted that short piece below the break. Here, I'd like to expand just a little bit on what I've written.
The sacrament of reconciliation is a wonderful thing, but as realized in the Catholic church, it is an individual thing. We confess personal sins, pursuant to reconciling with God. This week's Gospel reading, in which Jesus urges us to go find the brother with whom we have a beef, with a view to reconciling with him, takes it a step further: we also need to reconcile with one another. In my view, we should expand that idea even farther, and seek to foster reconciliation across the chasms which divide our society: race, educational attainment, urban vs rural.
Our president owes his electoral success to these divisions, and seemingly delights in deepening them. He visited Kenosha earlier this week, apparently without even bothering to reach out to the victim of the police shooting which triggered the civil unrest in that city. Joe Biden is going to take his turn at a Kenosha visit. Let's hope he comes in the role of peacemaker rather than fomenter of division.
Here is the article:
Jesus gives us an important teaching today about reconciling with those who have sinned against us.
Jesus prescribes a way to heal conflict and division between two persons. His first direction may be the most important: if someone has done something to injure me, my first recourse must be to go seek that person out and talk with him or her about it. Perhaps Jesus felt he had to give this advice because, in his day as much as in ours, people had less healthy ways to deal with the injuries that we inflict upon one another. Then, as now, injured parties may have spread detraction and gossip: seeking to wound the reputation in the local community of the ones who had hurt them. Alternatively, people might simply do nothing and lead their lives with an untreated injury, sometimes for many years, letting it grow and fester into a grudge. Worst of all, sometimes injuries lead to physical violence.
We must not go down the pathways of gossip, grudges and violence. Wounding others’ reputation through gossip and detraction can be a serious sin. And when combined with the power of social media, detraction can wreck a person’s reputation across the country and around the world. “Cancel culture” is not the way of the Gospel! As for grudges, I am sure many of us know persons who have not spoken to one another for years or even decades, or who can’t “let go” of something that someone else did to them. Grudges can be very unhealthy, even sinful. And except for defending oneself or others, violence is never an acceptable way to deal with injuries.
Jesus’ way is not the way of gossip, grudges and violence. Instead – he wants us to reconcile! If I have been hurt by someone, I should talk directly with that person, not to attack him in anger, but to let him know that he has hurt me, and that I am ready to forgive him. My hope would be that the person who has hurt me would then apologize, promise to try not to hurt me again, and even to provide recompense for anything I had lost through his hurtful words or actions. My readiness to forgive, together with his contrition and reparation, lays the groundwork for us to reconcile, and to live in peace with one another.
To us Catholics, this process should sound familiar, because it is the same movement that occurs in the sacrament of reconciliation: from sin to repentance to forgiveness to reparation to reconciliation and peace. Of the many things I could wish for to make our church a better, stronger and holier community, near the top of the list would be that we would partake of the sacrament of reconciliation more frequently. The Holy Spirit offers us forgiveness, healing and peace, if only we are willing to accept it.
It’s important to note, though, that our responsibility for reconciliation doesn’t end at the door of the confessional. We still must do what Jesus urges us to do in today’s Gospel: reconcile personally with the one with whom we are having conflict. That may make some of us feel uncomfortable, but the sacramental grace of reconciliation will give us the spiritual strength to reconcile with those whom we’ve hurt, and those who have hurt us.
As I write this, conflict is occurring almost nightly in urban centers around the country. The chant, “No justice, no peace!” is heard among many protesters. They are not wrong to call out this connection between civil justice and civil peace: injustice weakens the bonds which unite us as a community. Our Catholic tradition with its rich insights into the truth of human nature and behavior might supplement that chant with one of our own: “No reconciliation, no peace!” Just imagine a world in which all of us, of all races and ethnicities, rich and poor, women and men, of all political persuasions, could meet together, individually and in groups, not to scream at each other and hurt one another, but to reconcile: to listen to one another, to apologize for misdeeds, to try to make whole those whom we’ve injured, and to promise to try to live together in love and peace. Then peace could reign in our civil society, and our civil life might more closely reflect the kingdom of heaven which Jesus has inaugurated in our midst.
I like everything you said, but I wish the Church would take a harder look at why people don't avail themselves of the sacrament much. My guess is that if you polled converts, you would find that Reconciliation is described as "frightening," "confusing," and "perplexing." RCIA does nothing to clear anything up.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a hot flash every time I went in the box, which had no ventilation or a/c. The priest never did what the pamphlet said he would, and I always had to be told what to say and do. I felt like a seven-year-old. Ugh.
And then when you have some grave sin to confess (tubal ligation), it's just overwhelming.
Terrible experiences!
And, yes, I realize I brought the terrible experience on myself by having the tubal ligation and not being sorry for it, just scared of hell.
DeleteBeing a good confessor is a charism that not every priest has. And it's okay to "cherry pick". If one needs to discuss something that is troubling them, it might be better to call and makes an appointment rather than show up on Saturday afternoon when there's a line behind. Priests can hear confessions in their office, it doesn't have to be in the confessional. And imperfect contrition is okay, it's what most of us have.
DeleteI only got yelled at in confession once. I was eight years old and it was my second time. I confessed eating meat on Friday. The backstory was that I was eating lunch with relatives who weren't Catholic. They served hamburgers, and I was too shy to say I couldn't eat them. But I didn't tell that part. I just knelt there and got yelled at. It took until I was an adult not to fear and dread going to confession. From anything I've seen they do a better job now. But even still not everyone has the charism.
I wish you were our Church Lady, Katherine!
DeleteJean, what you said about the process being "frightening, confusing, and perplexing" is definitely true, especially to converts. And also to some who have been Catholic their whole life.
DeleteKatherine, I never met a priest who was a "good confessor". However, I must also disclose, that once I was away from watchful adults (my mother and nuns at my college who kept an eye out for who didn't ever show up for confession during Lent), I don't think I went to confession more than four or five times in my 20s. That was it, even though I was an active Catholic until my 60s. I realized that a man in a collar was not needed for me to take my sins and contrition to God. I knew that he can't see into my soul, but that God can, and that it is God who forgives and "absolves" me of my sins.
DeleteSome Catholics I knew went frequently for the "grace" - apparently they don't realize that God's grace is always there for us, that we simply have to accept it. However, they had this notion that the "sacramental grace" of confession is sort of a high octane grade, as if God's grace comes in regular, super, and high test. So they would go for their fill up, go home, do the same things, go to confession, say the same sins, say the same Hail Marys and Our Fathers and etc, etc, forever in a circle.
However, when I was in mid-life, facing a lot of turmoil and some difficult issues, I did have a sort-of confessor. She is a close friend, college roommate, who lives across the country. She is, like me, a married woman, a mother. She is also one of the most educated in theology etc people I know. But far more important than her knowing all about theology, liturgy, Christology, ecclesiology.etc, she is a deeply spiritual person. Her career was education - she was sent by the diocese to to give classes and workshops to parishes, priests, lay parish liturgy committee people, deacons etc, primarily in liturgy. But that's not why she was my confessor. None of her head knowledge about the church was important. It was her rare spiritual insights. She knows me very well, understands me better than I understand myself, and understands my life. Whenever I turned to her (mostly email and phone calls over years), she saw deeply, knew intuitively what I wasn't saying, could could quickly see the heart of the issues. She was painfully honest with me, but her candor was also infused with kindness and love. I don't "confess" to her as often these days, as the tough issues I was facing then eventually resolved. But I would turn to her again. I have not known anyone else in my life who could be that for me - my "confessor". Certainly not a celibate male in a Roman collar whom I barely know. Or may not know at all.
Perhaps people need to find their own confessor, with or without a collar, and perhaps a spiritual director as well. My friend has been both for me.
It's hard to believe that in this day and age, a decision about tubal ligation should be presented as being a sin.
DeleteJean, I am sympathetic with everything you say. I agree with Katherine that there are priests who have the knack, and it's worth trying different parishes and priests until you find one you like - and then making private appointments thereafter, if you and he are okay with that.
DeleteOne priest told me that the basic problem with the sacrament, from his point of view, is that many of the people who go regularly, don't really have sins to confess, while the ones who don't go are the ones who really need the grace and healing of the sacrament. So there is something out of whack in how the sacrament is utilized.
One thing I have found helpful is to bear in mind that most of our sins already are forgiven. The sins which, under the old rules, would have been classified as "venial", are forgiven in the course of a celebration of the mass. The Eucharist is itself a source of mercy and forgiveness; it is a bit of a distortion to think of it as something which is not available to those whose souls aren't perfectly scrubbed and spotless; if that is how a person insists on thinking about it, then s/he should realize that the mass does a good deal of the "scrubbing".
Btw, I don't know (or don't remember, if you've shared with us previously) the details of your tubal ligation, but from my point of view, it is simply a medical procedure, which is not sinful per se. If you needed the procedure because of an ectopic pregnancy - still not sinful, in my view. Not that I am the ruler over your soul and your conscience; if there is something about your circumstances which weighs on you, I hope you can find a sympathetic priest (or someone) who can give you some good spiritual advice.
I think your priest is on target. Cradle Catholics who grew up going to confession every Saturday continue out of habit. The rest of us just hope for the best.
DeleteJean, as related above, I never went to confession with a priest for the last 40 or so years that I was an active Catholic. None of my college Catholic friends did either. I finally left; some of my friends had left years earlier, but two of them (including my "confessor") are still practicing Catholics. I believe that both of those two still go to confession occasionally - during Lent. I never knew anyone after high school who went to confession every week. Or even every month. Advent and Lent maybe when they have the parish penance service. And I knew a whole lot of cradle Catholics! So even if they grew up in the 50s and were force-marched to confession regularly, most abandoned it as soon as they could.
DeleteAnne, apologies for not seeing your earlier comments. For some reason comments pop up in the feed on some kind of delayed timer. Probably an idiosyncracy of my aging tablet.
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DeleteI've never understood why they have a cow over a tubal ligation or vasectomy, any more than condoms or diaphragms. They're barrier methods, preventing the sperm and eggs from getting together. Unlike some of the hormonal ones, or IUDs, in which there is a concern that they may act as abortifacients by preventing a fertilized ovum from implanting. Besides, tubals or vasectomies are once and done, not like you're on Norplant for years at a time.
DeleteAlso the chance of serious fetal anomalies, or health complications for the mother increase sharply with age. So it could be viewed as preventing oneself from being tempted to an abortion.
Obviously I would get fired as a canaon lawyer.
NFP is also a way to ensure that a sperm and an egg don’t get together.mall these methods are used in order to avoid pregnancy. The least “natural” is NFP.
DeleteSorry I brought up my personal problems. The thread isn't about contraception. I meant only to note that the sacrament is fraught on many levels in different ways for different people.
DeleteJean, you're certainly not alone in finding the sacrament fraught. It can either be a source of healing, or an obstacle to healing. The church needs to look more closely into why it is an obstacle to healing for so many people.
DeleteJust imagine a world in which all of us, of all races and ethnicities, rich and poor, women and men, of all political persuasions, could meet together, individually and in groups, not to scream at each other and hurt one another, but to reconcile: to listen to one another, to apologize for misdeeds, to try to make whole those whom we’ve injured, and to promise to try to live together in love and peace. Then peace could reign in our civil society, and our civil life might more closely reflect the kingdom of heaven which Jesus has inaugurated in our midst.
ReplyDeleteLovely vision. I will not be holding my breath for it to happen, or anything close to it happening before the Second Coming. Jesus told us that the kingdom is not in heaven someday, it is on earth. And it is up to us to build it.
But, the world seems to be going in the opposite direction.
Anne, yes - we are members of Christ's body, so in building his kingdom, we are acting as his hands, his feet, his eyes, ears and so on.
DeleteIf I have been hurt by someone, I should talk directly with that person, ... to let him know that he has hurt me, and that I am ready to forgive him. My hope would be that the person who has hurt me would then apologize, promise to try not to hurt me again, and even to provide recompense for anything I had lost through his hurtful words or actions.
ReplyDeleteAnd if he or she does not apologize etc?
This is based on an assumption that may or may not be valid. It assumes that the person I see as hurting me, sees it the same way I do. They may not think that they did anything to hurt me. They may think that whatever I am asserting about what they did to hurt me is untrue. They may not be willing to apologize for something they (think)they didn't do. They may feel insulted by the charge against them. Etc.
Anne, it's a great point (and one that parishioners have made to me before when I've preached in this vein previously). There is a risk to the approach I am advocating: we have to be willing to make ourselves vulnerable to the rejection you describe. It isn't easy. In the post, I criticized the president for not reaching out to the victim of the original Kenosha police shooting (who is still alive and, I think, still in hospital, or perhaps now in rehab/therapy). I take that as the president not wanting to make himself vulnerable to rejection. Let's try to do better than he does, in this and in much else :-).
DeleteI think that is is more than possible that approaching someone you think has hurt you with the expectation of apology (and recompense!) could easily backfire. It requires a lot of discernment. Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Trump not going to see the victim of the police in Kenosha, I'm not a bit surprised that he didn't. It wouldn't have anything to do with trump fearing rejection. It has to do with trump believing that the guy got what he deserved because he ran for his car, resisting arrest. Trump is also defending the 17 year old who killed two people. trumps real reason for going there was to hammer home his election strategy of blaming Democrats for city violence and to reassure his white, (racist) voters that as long as he's in charge, these "thugs" (known as protestors by the rest of us) will not get away with it - he will SEND IN THE TROOPS!!
Some really good points here.
ReplyDeleteEveryone, including me, made fun of President Obama and Joe when they sat down for a beer with Henry Louis Gates and the cop who arrested him for "breaking into" his own house.
But the nuttiness of this arranged event became a kind of common enemy for Gates and the cop, and actually led to some reconciliation that Gates wrote about here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/03/magazine/henry-louis-gates-jr-interview.html
I used to have interesting lunchtime conversations with the Jewish IT tech at he library association. I was always interested in Yom Kippur, which occurred soon after Jewish New Year and was a day for mending fences. I always liked that idea, that there was a day that everyone acknowledged and apologized for their trespasses.
ReplyDeleteI think that the notion of seeking reconciliation by going to someone who has injured you in some way, and asking for an apology and perhaps recompense may work sometimes, but may not always be the greatest idea.
ReplyDeleteWhat would be more difficult for most of us, though, is seeking out those whom we may have injured in some way, apologizing, offering to do something to make up for it, and asking for forgiveness.
As Jean notes, this is what Jewish people do on Yom Kippur (at least that is what is recommended and expected. How often it happens? I don't know).
In my heavily Jewish community the public schools are closed for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We have many Jewish congregations in the community - Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and various sub-groups related to the larger groups. The congregations ask those who aren't members (members pay dues each year) to buy tickets for the High Holy Day services because they have overflow crowds. The local synagogues cannot accommodate everyone who comes for the High Holy Day services, so they rent the gyms in the local public schools. Of the two, the highest attendance that I see from outside seems to be on Yom Kippur, based on observations of parking lots at the schools and the temples. Although both are well attended. On Yom Kippur the services begin at sundown on one day, and continue all day the next day until sundown. - These seem to be the only holy days when they need the extra space in the schools. I don't see the same kinds of crowds for Passover or some of the other feasts.
I was in AlAnon for a few years before my mother died, and I still look in sometimes. They use the same steps as AA, the idea being that if you grew up with alcoholics, you are as sick as they are and are in need of forgiveness for being messed up.
DeleteFor all my eye-rolling at many aspects of 12-stepping, there is an emphasis on controlling your own behavior and accepting consequences, which includes "confessing" your remorse to people you have hurt. No, not everyone wants your apologies. But to the people who mattered, this can be a big part of moving on.
In its perfect form, the Catholic sacrament would prepare people to make temporal as well as spiritual reconciliation. Most of our sins against God are sins against creation, including other people. But, as I have experienced Confession from three priests, it doesn't. It lets people off with a few Hail Marys for the souls in Purgatory.
I expect there are many priests out there who do suggest that penitents offer apologies and restitution to others, but I have never encountered them.
Being Catholic *does* mean having my sins before me all the damn time, so, while I don't receive sacraments anymore, I am pretty quick to try to be better, which might include an apology.
Restitution is an obligation that the church teaches for stealing or cheating someone in a material way. But how does one make restitution for something intangible? We're a lot better at dealing with material losses than emotional or spiritual harm. The Hail Mary's and Our Fathers are a token stand in for the toothpaste that we can't put back in the tube. Believe it or not, confession is supposed to be so we don't have to have our sins before us forever and amen, if we are willing to give them over to God. Easier said than done.
DeleteI believe that a lot of problems experienced with the sacrament of Reconciliation is that we come a cropper of legalism and neglect the spirit of the commandments.
The Boy was a big fan of confession between the ages of 8 and 11. He told me once that he confessed to not unloading the diswasher. Father told him to say some Hail Marys and to unload the dishwasher all week without being told.
DeleteAs a kid with impulse control issues, he seemed to embrace these little penances happily. It was a way to redeem himself in his own eyes and give him confidence.
I wish Confession could like is for adults!
The Orthodox begin Lent on Sunday evening at Vespers. (They count days differently than we do; their first day of Lent is Monday which begins liturgically on Sunday evening).
ReplyDeleteForgiveness Vespers ends with the ceremony of mutual forgiveness. The priest asks forgiveness for anything that he may have done to offend anyone, mentioning some of his own faults, and then declares his willingness to forgive anyone who has offended him.
The person in the first pew (often his wife) comes up to the priest and does the same thing, and then stands to his right. Each person comes up and does the same ceremony, going down the line that is forming to the right.
During this ceremony the choir sings a paschal hymn which includes the phrase “Let us embrace each other. Let us forgive one another. Let us treat everyone as a brother even those who hate us. For by the Resurrection Christ has conquered death. Christ is risen from the dead, by death conquering death, and to those in the tombs granting life!
The Orthodox do some serious fasting during Lent and this hymn frames Lent and the motivation for that fasting.
This ceremony takes away a lot of the awkwardness of individual initiatives of reconciliation and the private character (between God, the priest and myself) of a lot of Catholic reconciliation.
Oh, yes! I think my friend in the Melkite Church talked about something like this.
DeleteSo, it’s a general apology to people without mentioning specific harm done to specific people?
DeleteWell it is both general and specific. Father creates the model when he apologizes to the parish. Usually he apologizes for mistakes in the liturgy, and for being inattentive to peoples needs, but this past Lent he mentioned the difficult year the parish had had and how he had handled it. Obviously the parish knew what he was taking about.
DeleteI suspect his wife apologizes to him both in general but also in specifics which gives him an opportunity to be more specific with her and each other parish members.
Since you forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone, obviously in many or most cases it is going to be polite generalities but it also offers people the opportunity to be specific.
Since I am not a member of the parish I don't participate. It is a small parish and they all know each other. I guess I could apologize for all the people whom I don't know. But they all know that I am there primarily for Saturday Vespers and some special feasts. I have only rarely gone to Sunday liturgy.
Where is Tom Blackburn? He hasn't been on here in awhile. Is he OK?
ReplyDeleteI don't think he's been on since Monday when he mentioned car and plumbing problems. Hope it's nothing worse than that.
DeleteNothing worse. Well, there is the computer problem, too. But it has all been time-consuming. Except the plumber. He came, he saw, he fixed. He charged, too, but reasonably.
DeleteI lost a whole day to sitting around waiting for geniuses to tell me what was wrong with the car -- things I had never noticed. They never did get around to fixing the tire that had a nail in it, which is why I was there. But they did present me with an estimate of $7,200 to make the beast run better. I had images in my head of the old Bill Mauldin cartoon, where the officer is holding a pistol pointed at a Jeep with splayed tires, and he is looking away and holding a hand over his eyes, like a cowboy finishing off his injured horse.
So my son came over from Dallas with his brilliant wife and aged pit bull, and before I could pull the trigger, he got a second opinion. Now the car is in the shop for $800.
Meanwhile, the never speedy computer is in slow decline (like the dog, Sugar Bee), and the solution for that is switch from Juno DSL to Xfinity cable. That'll take until Wednesday because 30 years ago my wife was adamantly against letting anyone run a cable into the house on grounds it was just another excuse to send us a bill every month and raise the bottom line "to better serve you." We also are switching cell phone providers for reasons I don't know. Steve sits in Dallas and decides what his feeble parents need, and then we are told we need to do it.
There are also outdoor lights, succulents, a two-year supply of toilet paper from Costco and some real good brandy involved. And some other things. The only new cost to me (beyond the plumber and the $800) is we have to eat vegan for a week to be returned to the living standards of Texas lawyers.
So I have been distracted.
Glad you are still alive and trying to see the humor in these things. Eating vegan and putting up with a damn dog would be a bridge too far for me.
DeleteWhat kind of lights? Those motion detector security floods that the stray cats set off? Or those little fairy lights that nestle artfully on the shrubs?
Want my Mom's 2004 Merc Grand Marquis? 60K, excellent shape, loaded, but no seat warmers, gigantic trunk. $3,000 or BO.
The dog is sweet. The kids got her from a neighbor who moved to where she couldn't take the dog. I think she was raised as a house pet. She is part pit bull but afraid of other dogs if there isn't a window between them.
DeleteNo, these are just lights that hang on the house outdoors. After 30 years they need change just for looks, but they do have light sensors that go on with darkness. They are light sensors, not motion.
The joke in this household is that Marilyn never saw a Grand Marquis without mentioning what a great paint job it had. She couldn't tell a Merc from a McLaren, but she never lauded anything else's paint job. The auto that gave me a turn is a 2005 Jaguar XL, red, one of the last years Jaguar made the best-looking car ever made. The "queen's seat,"right rear, has enough room for a desk with a vase on it. (I recline the driver's seat into the left rear seat.) Oil changes are $199, because British engineers think if everything fits, it's tickety-boo, an never wonder if you may need access to it. So if you need access to the oil cap, you have remove half of the engine. And you don't want to think about tires. But my regular guys just went crazy with imaginary problems.
Your Jag sounds cool, Tom. Glad you were able to fix it for a more reasonable price.
DeleteWe are in the middle of buying a 2018 Chevy Malibu, which is very pretty and only has 20,200 miles on it. My problem? I hated giving up the 2010 Impala with a lot more miles on it that we traded in. It was just about my favorite car ever. And it was paid for. But I like the Malibu. A 1966 Malibu was the first car we ever owned, our honeymoon car.
Yup, the paint job on those Mercs hold up. The problem is that they are all tan. If Earl Scheib was still in business and painting cats for $100 a pop, I'd get it repainted candy apple red.
DeleteYou actually drive your Jag? I thought they were just for paste waxing in the garage every Saturday to suggest an obscene amount of disposable income.
I guess a dog would be okay if it didn't bark or dribble.
Some guy had a 1954 beautifully reconditioned Chevy Belair at the drug store the other day. We had one of those until Dad sold it in 1966.
Tom, I'm glad your absence is due to household and car challenges, but, even better, because you have your son and his wife visiting.
ReplyDeleteI had a Jag once - an XJ6. I loved it! But, sadly, it was the least reliable car we ever owned. We bought it used, from a private seller,and didn't get it checked out. Stupid.
Finally had to give up on it. We sold it to a hobbyist who liked to fix old Jags.
I bought my current car used - it's a 2004 Lexus SUV. I bought it when it was 3 years old, "certified pre-owned" from a dealer, with a warranty. I never had to use it. A few things don't work now - the CD player is the worst problem. I have a few dents that I never bothered to repair because of the deductible. I figured we had better things to do with the money than improve the cosmetics of my car. I love this car maybe even more than the Jag, even though it is less snazzy. It has never needed any repairs to the engine or otherwise. Just the CD player, which we haven't fixed. With the new models coming out, my car is now 17 years old. We plan to drive to California this winter, in late Nov or in December to spend winter there. So we will probably get a new, used, car for the trip. For such a long trip, at our ages, and possible weather issues on the way because it will be winter instead of June - even though we plan to drive the southern route this time (we drove the 70 and 80, as well as partly the 40, for the four previous cross-country trips) - we have decided we need a car that is newer, with a warranty, and with the newer safety features like side airbags. We will not be able to drive as many hours as in previous cross-country road trips, mostly due to age but also due to short days. We want a comfortable car - my Lexus won my heart because of the comfort! Since we will also at some point drive the car back to the east coast also, it needs to be safe and reliable.
Your tale of expensive repairs reminded me of our return from a long trip 5 years ago - to a heat wave and no AC working. We called in two repairmen, both of whom said we needed an all new system. I tried a third time - he repaired it for about $300 and it has been working ever since without a problem.
It really does pay to get multiple estimates.
Richard Rohr on Restorative Justice
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