August 14 - Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Jos.3:7-11,13-17; Ps.114:1-6; Mt.18:21-19:1) "My heavenly Father will treat you in exactly the same way unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart." The forgiveness of sins and the crossing of the Jordan into the Promised Land is our theme today. Both are very much one and the same. In our gospel Jesus tells the parable of the merciless servant in order to teach Peter and the apostles of the office of forgiveness which is theirs through his intercession. When one of a king's officials is unable to pay his debt, he "prostrates himself" before the king and begs for time. "Moved…
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