Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Our readings today invite us to be merciful toward others as God is merciful toward us. Indeed, to forgive is one of the most difficult virtues to live out. Fr. Bill McGary once shared when we were young scholastics that the mark of a genuine Christian community is…
Day: September 17, 2017
The Art of Forgiveness – Mark Aloysius, SJ
Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Just a couple of days ago, I witnessed something that made me think even now of how limited our capacity to forgive is, and how much our readings today want to expand our capacity for forgiveness. Outside an apartment building, I saw a young mother screaming at security…
The Two Things We Need to Know about Forgiveness – Johnny Go, SJ
Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s Sunday Gospel is about forgiveness: Peter, on the one hand, monitoring his quota on forgiveness, and our Lord, on the other, tossing all that accounting out the window by reminding us that by the way, we all of us are recipients of the Father’s boundless mercy, remember? Forgiveness is…
We Forgive because We have been Forgiven – Fr Harold Parilla
Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Readings for this Sunday center on the theme of forgiveness. This theme is ever-relevant, sometimes too relevant that it makes us all uncomfortable. We are imperfect, and we are surrounded by others who are similarly lacking in perfection. Expectedly, we offend people and people upset us. It…
Breaking the Chain – John Foley, SJ
Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time This Sunday is all about forgiveness. The Gospel illustrates in stark terms what this word means. First, look at the initial readings, which are preliminaries. The First Reading, from the Book of Sirach, tells how awful wrath and anger are, but how the sinner “hugs them tight,” a…
77 Times – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Matthew 18:21-35, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time From my own life and from the life of people I have accompanied through the years, I observe three reasons why we find it so difficult to forgive: (1) We don’t say “I’m sorry” enough; (2) we remember past hurts like they happened only yesterday; and (3), we…
One Lost Sheep 