mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (through my fault, through my most grievous fault)
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
“Is it a sin to love freely?”Cold settled in Ben’s gut.
It was a question Ben had asked himself, of Him, for many many years. He knelt for countless hours before many images, repeating prayer after prayer that Ben wondered if he spoke more Latin than he did any other tongue. Ben’s arms and back ached with remembered pain, learning to write with his left hand because his right wrist was too bruised to move, and his throat pulsed with the burn of a clerical collar too tight around his neck.
“Did your God not preach that to love thy neighbor as you love thyself?” Ben flinched, the words of the penitent were the very same that he asked himself. They echoed within the wood of the confessional, and Ben wondered if this was one of His tests. Were the years he suffered not enough? “Father, is it a sin to love another man?”
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