Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The Accountancy of Forgiveness
Seeing that Peter wants to quantify forgiveness, Jesus tells a parable about forgiveness using numbers whose proportions are absurd.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
It is hard to believe that God could forgive endlessly. We, for our part, surely would not. Forgive again and again and again? We think that if we forgive too easily, people will walk all over us.
John J. Pilch
In behavior that is both shocking and sad, the forgiven slave turns toward a fellow slave in the same household and refuses to forgive a much smaller debt. He refuses to imitate the merciful behavior of the king-patron.
When we pray we are all beggars before God. We are standing at the door of a great householder, or rather, lying prostrate, and begging with tears.
Reginald H. Fuller
The fundamental principle here is that no Christian exists by himself or herself, but only in relation to the Lord.