You can continue to love and forgive them and, insofar as they receive that love and forgiveness from you, they are receiving love and forgiveness from God. You are part of the Body of Christ and they are touching you. Within the incredible mystery of the incarnation, you are doing what Jesus asks of us when he says: “Whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.”8 And “whose sins you forgive they are forgiven; whose sins you retain, they are retained.”9
