I'm Sorry Versus Thank You
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
When we inconvenience someone, we may feel like we are in their debt. If so, Fr. Mike Schmitz encourages us to apologize to that person, but further, to offer our gratitude in response to his or her forgiveness. We should especially respond this way when we offend our merciful God, who wants to forgive us our debt and help us move forward with grace.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Svother Mike Smiths and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:06.0 | So I was recently at a wedding and afterwards, I mean a couple days afterwards, I was talking |
| 0:10.6 | to the bride and groom and the bride said something that I just kind of like, I was like, |
| 0:13.8 | huh, this is interesting. |
| 0:14.8 | She said that she loved her reception. |
| 0:17.2 | She loved the wedding was a great time but she said she found herself constantly fighting |
| 0:21.6 | the temptation at her reception to apologize. |
| 0:25.4 | That she found herself, you know, people come up because people were serving her the whole |
| 0:28.4 | day. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm so happy to see you. |
| 0:30.4 | How can I help you? |
| 0:31.4 | People had come from all over not only the country but all over the world to her wedding |
| 0:35.8 | and so she found herself just wanting to say these two words. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:40.3 | So she, the whole day, she said, I just fought myself from saying, I'm sorry and tried |
| 0:43.8 | to change those two words, I'm sorry, into two other words. |
| 0:48.4 | The words I'm sorry aren't bad words. |
| 0:50.6 | Those are good words. |
| 0:51.6 | In fact, I think a lot of times when we know that we've caused someone something or that |
| 0:55.4 | when someone else has taken, paid the price and forgiven us or sorry, taken, paid the |
| 1:02.0 | price and for something we've done, that we need to acknowledge that and actually what |
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