The sense of sins

The sense of sins

Sin is something that we play down considerably today; but that it was something that Jesus seemed to give much importance to. “This is the cup of my Blood, the Blood of new and everlasting covenant…… This Blood is to be shed for you and for all men so that SINS may be forgiven,” says the priest at solemn moment of the Eucharist, echoing Jesus’ own words. “Receive the Holy Spirit!” says the Jesus to His apostles after his resurrection, “If you forgive any man’s sins they stand forgiven; if you pronounce them unforgiving, unforgiven they remain” (Jn20:23). In the Lord’s Prayer he bids us ask for just three things: Our daily bread, moral strength to fight temptation and forgiveness of sin.