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                                                                                       and Monday 7:30 am          

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  • 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Week of September 11, 2011

    Reading I: Sirach 27:30-28:9
     
  • We need forgiveness, so forgive others.

    First Reading Background
    • 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. God.
    Reading II: Romans 14:7-9
     
  • Judgment belongs to God alone. By God's mercy we are grated the power to forgive.

    Second Reading Background
    • 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
     
  • God will judge us by the measure we forgive others.

    Gospel Background
    • 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.
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