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Quit Counting: Forgiveness and Letting Go of Anger (Matthew 18) - Fr. PJ McManus - 09/11/2026
Fr. PJ McManus, back on the air after a lengthy sabbatical and now serving at Saint Catherine of Siena in the Drake neighborhood of Des Moines, previews the readings for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sirach 27:30–28:7 and Matthew 18:21–35. Following Peter's arc over recent weeks — from confessing Jesus as the Christ to misunderstanding that the Messiah must suffer — Fr. PJ unpacks Peter's question, "How often must I forgive?" and Jesus' answer: stop counting.
Fr. PJ describes forgiveness not as a one-and-done event, but as a free, habitual act of the will that moves toward the…
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