The first to accept repentant sinners as a matter of policy was the bishop of Rome. Callistus (217–22) readmitted penitent members who had committed adultery and abortion and other sins. He argued that the church is like Noah’s ark. In it unclean as well as clean beasts can be found. Then he defended his actions by insisting that the Church of Rome was the heir of Peter, and the Lord had given keys to Peter to bind and to loose sins. This marks the first time a bishop of Rome claimed this special authority.
Gözlerim çeşme gibi oldu size ağlamak, gözyaşlarımı yağmur gibi dökmek ve kalbimin acısını
dindirebilmek için! Suçlamada ve garezde bulunmanıza kim izin verdi? Bunu o kadar çok yaptınız ki yargılama size mutlaka ulaşacaktır günahkarlar
O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and pour forth my tears like rain, and rest from the sorrow of my heart! Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall overtake you, ye sinners.
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
“I’m thinking.”
“Does it hurt?”
“Shut up.”
Originally established by Boniface VIII in 1300, the Jubilee was intended to make an indulgence available to all repentant and confessed sinners free of charge—that is, if they could afford the journey to Rome. Boniface intended the Jubilee Year as a centennial event, but the first one had been such an enormous success, attracting a reported two million visitors to Rome in the course of the year, that the city, impoverished by the loss of the papacy to Avignon, petitioned Clement VI to shorten the interval to fifty years.
It’s impossible to fathom the sadness of those who are left
behind, but if life gives one more suffering than death, shouldn’t
we respect their right to end life? We are so bad at mourning in our
society. Maybe it’s a failure of respect. Some call those who choose
their own death sinners or failures or losers who give up. Is living
until the end really a triumph in every case? As if there can be any
true winning or losing in this game of life…
