Bulletin Shorts for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 13 September 2020

Sirach 27:30–28:7.  Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12.  Romans 14:7-9.  Matthew 18:21-35.

Seventy-Seven Times.  When is enough enough?  Can we be angry now?  When can we stop forgiving?  If we have to forgive the same person the same thing seventy-seven times, can we stop at seventy-eight?  No!  Because, as Paul declares in Romans 14, we live and die for God, to whom alone we belong.  We do not live for ourselves.

• Who needs my forgiveness?
• Whom will I forgive – and for what – perhaps, again?
• And what forgiveness do I need?

This post was first published on the worship pages of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois website.
Sunday Prayer Shaping Life and Belief
Written by Eliot Kapitan.

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