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Ordinary Time

For a large part of the liturgical year, we devote ourselves to listening to the mystery of Christ in all its aspects unfolded as we seek God's truth and understanding.

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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I : Sirach 27:30-28:7

Forgive your neighbor’s faults, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven.

  • The Book of Sirach is concerned with anger and quarreling.
  • If we refuse to forgive, then who will forgive us?
  • Refusal is a deliberate choice and it shapes a sinner’s life.

Reading II : Romans 14:7-9

Whether alive or dead, we belong to the Lord.

  • We belong to God, not to ourselves.
  • We live not be our own power, but by the creative power of God and the mercy given us through Christ’s Resurrection.
  • We have no right to judge one another.
  • Judgment belongs to God alone. By God’s mercy we have been granted the power to forgive.

Gospel : Matthew 18:21-35

I did not say to forgive seven times but seventy times seven.

  • Vengeance must not be multiplied, but instead forgiveness should be multiplied.
  • God is forgiving; we are made in God’s image.
  • God will judge us by the measure of our forgiveness of one another.
  • Our mutual forgiveness will reveal how the image of God lives in us.