Comments on: Sexual Abuse, Sackcloth, and Ashes: Meeting Scandal with Acts of Reparation https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/ Homemaking. Homeschooling. Catholic Life. Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: طراحی سایت بدون کدنویسی https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-51849 Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:55:35 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-51849 es to lead to more occurrences. That experience of innocence has so many beautiful reflections of out religious beliefs. A warm welcome to the church would be the best gift you can provide – focus on the good – and people who have experienced sexual abuse will be drawn to you. Focus on the crime and the act and people who have experienced sexual abuse will hide from you. People who have experienced sexual abuse have a purity of innocence in our understanding of love, forgiveness, compassion. Do not reach out to us with revenge, justice, sack cloths – just reach out with friendship, with Christian lov

]]> By: The Holy Cross: A Guide to Exalting and Sorrowing in September - Catholic All Year https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-33668 Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:21:23 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-33668 […] August 15th to the vigil of Michaelmas on September 29th (excluding Sundays). Last year, we had our Sackcloth and Ashes observation in […]

]]> By: John https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-21418 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:30:15 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-21418 Please take great care in how you write about people that have experienced sexual abuse. As a person who experienced sexual abuse by a paedophile ring decades ago I can tell you that the abuse continues throughout your life. In that moment, that life defining moment – you are not broken or damaged or enraged to seek justice. You are in a perfect state of innocence. An innocence that stays with you forever – a blessing. The challenge becomes our place in the world whilst living in that perfect blessing of innocence. The world wants to right itself, to forgive itself for abuse, to punish itself for the abuse that continues to happen as I type these words. No person that experienced sexual abuse thinks for a moment that they can stop these abuses from happening. However, we take comfort in knowing that whilst we will experience great challenges in our lives we have received the blessing of innocence. To know that we will have a special place in heaven. The world in its nature will continue to harbour and protect perpetrators of sexual abuse; the predators will find Machiavellian ways to carry out the abuse no matter what safeguards are put in place. I do not ask anyone to prostrate themselves or punish themselves for what the perpetrators did and continue to do . I would only pray that people that have experienced sexual abuse whether as a child or as an adult – or in my case both – are treated with fairness, gentleness and compassion. A world where we do not have to hide what has happened to us for fear of being treated differently would alleviate much of the challenges that we face. We are not broken, we do not need to find peace – we have an insight into innocence, care, love, forgiveness that actually makes us exceptional people to know. Sadly not many people get to know us as we need to hide ourselves for fear of how people respond to us. Perhaps a more appropriate way forward would be for the church to become the welcoming refuge for people that have experienced sexual abuse. Not wasting money on compensation or cash hungry psychologists or counsellors but just an open and welcome invitation. Hold masses specifically, and perhaps exclusively for people that have experienced sexual abuse. Stop treating us as victims. We have a life experience that is certainly criminal, but rarely results in conviction. Many do not even report the crime as it is a waste of time and in conflict to our knowledge or innocence, love, caring and forgiveness. Welcome us as people that have had an experience – we are not complicit in what happened to us. We are not responsible for the world’s inaction that led to and continues to lead to more occurrences. That experience of innocence has so many beautiful reflections of out religious beliefs. A warm welcome to the church would be the best gift you can provide – focus on the good – and people who have experienced sexual abuse will be drawn to you. Focus on the crime and the act and people who have experienced sexual abuse will hide from you. People who have experienced sexual abuse have a purity of innocence in our understanding of love, forgiveness, compassion. Do not reach out to us with revenge, justice, sack cloths – just reach out with friendship, with Christian love.

]]> By: shariq khatri https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16133 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:40:18 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16133 This is very educational content and written well for a change. It's nice to see that some people still understand how to write a quality post! Training room rental in Singapore

]]> By: Kendra https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16118 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:15:56 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16118 I’m glad to hear it! Welcome! And lots of folks started at different times and will end at different times. It works well as a DIY.

]]> By: Bizzy https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16117 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 02:41:02 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16117 I wish I'd found this earlier! Thank you for doing this. I will join in for the last few days.

]]> By: Carola Brennan https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16102 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 06:55:15 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16102 I have joined it. Thank you Kendra for encourage us the path to pray more, sacrifice more, and heal more. Acts of reparations … with interior life…
St Josemaria Escriva, in The way #301 says: …these world crises are crises of saints…
God wants a handful of men 'of his own' in every human activity. And then… 'pax Christi in regno Christi — the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ'

]]> By: Kendra https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16091 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:06:53 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16091 In reply to Anita Dodson.

You just did! Now you choose your acts of reparation and your forty days and just do it!

]]> By: Anita Dodson https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16090 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 02:19:12 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16090 Not sure how to officially "Join" but I want to.

]]> By: Unknown https://catholicallyear.com/blog/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16089 Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:53:45 +0000 https://skymouse.wpengine.com/2018/08/20/sexual-abuse-sackcloth-and-ashes/#comment-16089 I have joined.

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