Alaric, Sigismund and PreEvangelica,
I do not forget, I do not forgive.
Firstly because forgiveness is from God,
I have no power to forgive sins, this is power given to ordained priests.
I have a good memory given to me to remember
and as an aid to wisdom, thanks to my Creator,
Who is the Loving, Just God.
Secondly,
Forgiveness of sin is dependent upon contrition within the sinner,
not upon my capacity to forgive or aquiese, or forget sins that have been commited.
If such a person, having committed an evil sin came to me and admitted contrition and asked my forgiveness I would tell him or her to go to a priest or at least plead to
God for foregiveness and mercy.
Here are the ONLY prayers I will ever pray for violent, evil criminal men and women,
who kill or do violence to innocent ones,
prayers written by one greater than we are:
" The wicked go astray even from their mother's womb,
even from their birth these liars
have erred.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent,
like a deaf adder that stops its ears.....
O God, break their teeth in their mouth.....
Let them vanish like the waters that flow away......
Let them pass like a snail that wastes away......
The just man shall rejoice when he sees vengence,
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
And men shall say: Truly there is a reward for the just man,
truly there is a God who judges on earth."
From Psalm 57
There are many more such examples in the Word of God.