I want to end this overview of the June Gathering by telling you some of the things that were brought home to me. I realized that I can’t enter well into what I'll call "identificational repentance" when really I’m indifferent; and I'm indifferent when things are distant from me -- distant in history or distant in the present, geographically or emotionally. Particularly, in being among those who were definitely not indifferent, (and Europeans seem to have so much a better sense of history than many of us Americans, they're more connected) I felt the pain of not being able to respond as fully as I’d have liked. The process of praying prayers of identificational repentance is both humbling and necessarily cleansing—looking at the sin of another or a grievous event of history, I felt that my eyes needed to be purified so that I could look with care rather than point the finger.
I would commend the story of a German Lutheran pastor's experience of entering into identificational repentance during his time in a previous gathering held in Rome.
Source: Ann Cogdell - Report to Christ Church Anglican in Waco, 4 Sept. 2016