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Browsing Reflections

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ September 17, 2017

Forgiveness – even the first disciples found it hard to be forgiving of others. When they asked, perhaps in frustration, how many times they were to be forgiving, Jesus does not soften his response. Rather he multiplies the number of times they are to be forgiving saying “not seven times but seven times seventy-seven times.” We are fortunate that each time we seek out God’s forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance, we are never turned away, never refused His mercy and compassion. To whom is God calling us to extend that same kind of forgiveness?