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Personal Politics
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Sermons On The Gospel Readings
Series II, Cycle A
Thomas Browne said that "the vices we scoff at in others laugh at us from within ourselves." More than any other relational failure this is true of hurt and vengeance.
When the great nineteenth-century Spanish General, Ramon Narvaez, lay dying in Madrid, a priest was called in to give him last rites. "Have you forgiven your enemies?" the padre asked.
"Father," confessed Narvaez, "I have no enemies. I shot them all."
When the great nineteenth-century Spanish General, Ramon Narvaez, lay dying in Madrid, a priest was called in to give him last rites. "Have you forgiven your enemies?" the padre asked.
"Father," confessed Narvaez, "I have no enemies. I shot them all."
