text: You don't think if Judas went to Jesus and asked forgiveness, this would have been recorded and thus he wouldn't have resorted to suicide?
  
  And if the law of prayer is the law of belief, the EF collect from Holy Thursday:
  
  "O God, from whom Judas received the punishment of his guilt, and the thief the reward of his confession: grant unto us the full fruit of Thy clemency; that even as in His Passion our Lord Jesus Christ gave to each retribution according to his merits, so having cleared away our former guilt, he may bestow on us the grace of His resurrection: Who with Thee liveth and reigneth…"