Teach Him a Lesson He'll NEVER forget!

NEVER forget!

“Go and learn the meaning of the words, I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”

(St. Matthew 9.13)

The boy stood apprehensively before his father, his lips trembling, not knowing what to say, his eyes fixed hopelessly on his father's stern gaze.

He’d been caught.

And what he had done was terribly wrong, and very hurtful to his father. The boy knew it. He was without excuse.

Looking even more intently into his son’s eyes, the father rose to his full height and in a voice resonating with depth and complete meaning, he uttered the very words the boy feared most:

“I am going to teach you a lesson you will never forget!”

The boy visibly quivered, but did not waver in his gaze. His father reached over to him, and the boy squinted, anticipating the pain.

Bringing his son's head to his chest, and folding his arms around him, the father said ...

“I forgive you.”

A father
for the Boston Catholic Journal

**Totally Faithful to the Sacred Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome**

“Scio opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I know your works ... that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.” (Apocalypse 3.8)

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