{"id":28720,"date":"2024-03-04T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2024-03-06T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:35:06","slug":"how-often-we-must-forgive-tuesday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-march-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/how-often-we-must-forgive-tuesday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-march-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"How Often We Must Forgive, Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, March 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nColumbia Catholic Ministry, Notre Dame Church, Manhattan<br \/>\nTuesday of the Third Week in Lent<br \/>\nMarch 5, 2024<br \/>\nDan 3:25.34-43, Ps 25, Mt 18:21-35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily,\u00a0please\u00a0click below:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28720-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The point of Lent is to become holy like God is holy, perfect as he is perfect, merciful as he is merciful, loving as he himself has loved us first. Today\u2019s readings are placed in this \u201csecond phase\u201d of Lent \u2014 from the Third Sunday through Friday of the Fourth Week \u2014 precisely to help the Elect preparing for baptism, and all of us who have already entered the Sacred Waters, to know the demands that flow from immersion into God\u2019s mercy. In Baptism we receive God\u2019s incredible gift of mercy and to live in accordance with our baptism means to allow that living well of mercy spring up to overflowing from us. Jesus stressed when he taught us the Our Father that unless we forgive others their debts, neither will our heavenly Father forgive us ours. He won\u2019t withhold forgiveness from us as a punishment, but rather we won\u2019t be able to receive his gift, for unless we have a heart that\u2019s ready to forgive others, our heart will be closed to absorb the gift of his mercy. And so Jesus wants through baptism to take away our stony hearts and replace them with a heart of flesh, a heart that can receive the in-pouring of the Father\u2019s mercy systolically and pump it out diastolically. As we pray today with the Prophet Daniel, \u201cDo not take away your mercy from us\u201d and \u201cdeal with us in your kindness and great mercy,\u201d God shows us how never to lose that mercy. As we beseech God in the words of the Psalm, \u201cRemember your mercies, Lord,\u201d and remark that the Lord is \u201cgood and upright,\u201d who \u201cshows sinners the way,\u201d the Lord today instructs us in his way by helping us not only to remember his mercies but also never to forget the need to pass that mercy on.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s what\u00a0today\u2019s Gospel is all about.\u00a0St. Peter asks Jesus, \u201cIf my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him?\u201d One of the most difficult aspects of living the Catholic faith is the teaching about loving even our enemies and forgiving those who repeatedly wrong us, hate us and persecute us. When people hurt us, we think it\u2019s magnanimous and generous to\u00a0give them a second chance. If we forgive them yet again, we think we\u2019re ready for canonization. But Jesus\u2019 standards for us are higher. He wants us to become as merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful \u2014 and each of our autobiographies shows clearly that\u00a0God has given\u00a0us way more than one or two spiritual chances. \u00a0The Rabbis taught, based on a misinterpretation of passages of the\u00a0Prophet Amos, that we needed to forgive three times, to give someone a forth chance. Peter in his question to Jesus multiplied that by two and added one and said, \u201cAs many as 7 times?\u201d This would be an astronomically high standard, giving someone an eighth chance, before writing someone off as incorrigible. Jesus replied, however, \u201cNo, Seventy Sevens.\u201d Whether that means 70\u00d77 (490) or 70+7 (77) times really doesn\u2019t matter, because seven is a number already with a sense of infinity. It means to forgive without limit.\u00a0He says Peter must forgive every time a brother or sister wrongs him.\u00a0And what Jesus says to Peter, he also says to us. Just as God never tires, as Pope Francis says, of forgiving us, and we must never tire of asking for that forgiveness, so we, too, must never tire of extending that forgiveness when someone asks it of us, when someone has wronged us \u2014 even and especially those who have really wounded us deeply. We must forgive fathers and mothers who have hurt us when we were younger, brothers and sisters who have betrayed us, friends who have deceived us, priests or nuns who have scandalized us, assailants who have attacked us, and terrorists who have mercilessly killed those closest to us.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus tells us why we must do this by means of the parable he gives us, which I\u2019ve always found among his most powerful.\u00a0He describes two debtors. The first is brought into the King for owing what our translation says is a \u201chuge amount.\u201d The actual term used by St. Matthew is \u201c10,000 talents.\u201d A talent was equivalent to 6,000 denarii and a denarius was a full day\u2019s wage. That means that the man owed 60,000,000 days worth of work, something that would take him 164,271\u00a0<em>years\u00a0<\/em>to pay off. His request, after he had fallen prostrate on the ground and begged for time to pay it back, was totally absurd. He would need to live to be 165,000 years old! To monetize his debt in today\u2019s terms in order to better understand it, if he were making $100 a day (or $12.50 an hour), he would have owed $6 billion. But the text tells us that when the King saw the man on the ground begging absurdly for time, his \u201cheart was moved with pity\u201d (literally, he was sick to his stomach, his viscera exploded with compassion, <em>splanchnizomai, <\/em>the verb that the evangelists use to describe Jesus\u2019 mercy) and he forgave the entire debt. He didn\u2019t even make him pay what he could. He forgave it all. We\u2019re supposed to see in this what God does for us. He forgives our entire debt \u2014 10,000 talents worth \u2014\u00a0seven, seventy-seven, 490 times and more. His merciful generosity is the most distinctive reality about the world!<\/li>\n<li>But then the Parable describes\u00a0that the servant who had been forgiven\u00a0<em>billions,\u00a0<\/em>who was a billionaire in merciful love, went off and met a servant who owed him 100 denarii (100 days wages), something that could be paid off in a few months. This second debtor, using the very same words and actions as the first, fell down begging for time to pay it off. The first debtor must have recognized that the phrase and actions being employed reminded him of his own recent condition. But instead of sharing mercy with the second debtor, instead of <em>even just giving time to pay it off,\u00a0<\/em>he went up and started to\u00a0<em>choke him\u00a0<\/em>in anger and threw him into prison until his family was able to raise the 100 denarii (in today\u2019s money $10,000 at $100 a day) to pay him back. It was obvious that he hadn\u2019t been transformed by the incredible act of mercy of the King. He had received the King\u2019s debt forgiveness superficially; even on a day on which he had been forgiven billions he couldn\u2019t give another person\u00a0a few months to pay back the debt he owed. At\u00a0that point the other servants of the King, seeing the behavior of their colleague, were \u201csaddened\u201d and \u201cdisturbed\u201d and they went to the Master, not so much to tattle-tale as to let him know of what was happening in his kingdom, that his standard of mercy was not being shown. He called in the first debtor, called him \u201cwicked\u201d and asked the poignant question: \u201cI forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.\u00a0Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,\u00a0as I had pity on you?\u201d Rather than paying the mercy forward, he stifled the flow. And he was sent to prison until she should pay back the last penny, something, because of the size of his debt, was impossible. Because he was unwilling to forgive a small debt, he would be in prison forever; his lack of forgiveness, rather than what he owed, was what got him sent to an unending incarceration.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s the relevance for us in Lent and in life?\n<ul>\n<li>The first lesson is that we\u2019re either \u201cmerciful like the Father\u201d and forgive others their sins against us or we\u2019re \u201cwicked\u201d because we do not extend to our fellow servants the pity that the Lord first showed us. Merciful or wicked. There is no third option. If we\u2019re not merciful to others, we\u2019re not faithful to our baptism and Christian identity.<\/li>\n<li>The second\u00a0is about the debt we\u2019ve incurred to God because of our sins. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>unpayable.\u00a0<\/em>We owe more to God than the rising U.S. national debt! There\u2019s no way we can ever pay it back. We\u2019re always debtors, not creditors, in the forgiveness department. God the Father did not write off our debt, but sent his Son to pay for the debt with his own body and blood on the Cross. Our sins \u2014 even every single venial sin \u2014 have incurred an infinite debt that Christ needed to pay. Since we have received his forgiveness in baptism and in the sacrament of reconciliation, we are called to go out likewise and forgive others their much smaller debts to us, because nothing anyone could do to us \u2014 even if he or she were to torture us or kill those closest to us \u2014 amounts to what we\u2019ve done to the Son of God made man through our sins.\u00a0This is a very important point for us to get. Very often we can think our sins are light matter, not that big a deal.\u00a0\u00a0We can have very little compunction if we say a harsh word, or consent to an\u00a0impure thought, or fail to help a needy neighbor. But every sin we\u2019ve committed \u2014 even being impatient with others \u2014 makes us <em>de facto<\/em> crucifiers\u00a0of the Son of God, because Jesus had to die to forgive even our least venial sin.\u00a0This is a hard truth to bear, and I know there will be some people who will think that I must be exaggerating. I\u2019m not. That\u2019s how horrible our sins are. Our sins are not peccadilloes; they led to the torture and execution of Jesus.\u00a0If we stopped there, it would be hard for us not to feel infinitely miserable. But God loved us so much that he counted it a bargain to send his Son to die in payment of the debts we incurred by our sins. That\u2019s the second\u00a0lesson from today\u2019s Gospel.<\/li>\n<li>The third is that God\u2019s mercy toward us \u2014 which is infinite and everlasting \u2014 can be forfeited. In the parable, the Master who had written off the $6 billion debt, revoked it when he saw the one he had forgiven refuse similar mercy to the person who owed him. God makes this point emphatically throughout Sacred Scripture. In the Book of Sirach, God tells us,\u201cForgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray. Does anyone harbor anger against another, and expect healing from the Lord? If one has no mercy toward another like himself, can he then seek pardon for his own sins?\u201d In the Office of Readings today, St. Peter Chrysologos made the same point. He wrote, \u201cIf you hope for mercy, show mercy. \u2026 If you ask for yourself what you deny to others, your asking is a mockery. \u2026 Show mercy to others in the same way, with the same generosity, with the same promptness, as you want others to show mercy to you.\u201d In today\u2019s Gospel, Jesus vigorously made the same point: \u201cSo my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you\u201d \u2014 treat us like the first debtor in the parable \u2014 \u201cunless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.\u201d And none of us should miss the eternal consequence if God revokes or we forfeit his forgiveness. We\u2019ll go to Hell, where there will never be enough time to pay our debt \u2014 \u00a0since unless God forgives us our sins, our sins will prevent us from getting to Heaven. We can add, however, that if we fail to forgive others, we will not have to wait until we die to go to Hell, because we\u2019ll already be experiencing a type of hell on earth. The past pains due to others\u2019 sins against us will always remain in the present, raw and heavy, dragging us down by their weight. Jesus gives us the command to forgive others not just so that we might imitate his merciful love, and not even so that we won\u2019t revoke it by our failure to be merciful to others, but so that we might experience the liberation and joy mercy brings the giver. Framed positively, this third lesson that Jesus is teaching us in this parable is that we need to pay his mercy forward. We have been made rich in mercy by God\u2019s generosity and we\u2019re called to share it. It\u2019s like God has made us billionaires and he wants us liberally to share that gift with those who owe us because of the debts of their sins toward us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In calling us to forgive\u00a0in this way, Jesus was himself calling us to follow\u00a0his command to\u00a0\u201clove others as I have loved you,\u201d and his love for us is always merciful. Therefore, our love for others must likewise always be clement.\u00a0As he was dying to pay the debt for our sins, after his back had been shredded at the flagellation, after his head had been crowned with thorns, and the Roman soldiers were about to hammer his arms to the wood of the Cross, Jesus cried out not in pain but in mercy: \u201cFather, forgive them for they know not what they do!\u201d (Lk 23:34). The \u201cthem\u201d and the \u201cthey\u201d he was referring to were not just the Roman soldiers who clearly knew how to crucify someone, but to all of us who when we sin really do not have a clue about how they crucify and kill our Savior. There is a similar consequential ignorance when we sin against others and others sin against us.\u00a0Today Jesus is asking us to make his words our own, to make his love our own, to make his mercy our own \u2014 by our receiving it from him in the Sacrament of Mercy and by our sharing that forgiveness lavishly, with others. He who is mercy incarnate has made us rich in mercy like his Father. He\u2019s restored to us billions that we\u2019ve squandered. And he wants us to\u00a0spend that merciful love down to the last penny!<\/li>\n<li>Today at this Mass we pray this Mass open to receive and share the continuous living water of God\u2019s merciful love that first welled up in us on the day of our baptism. Here Jesus gives us his body and his blood, given and poured out for the forgiveness of sins. We start Mass by calling to mind our sins and throwing ourselves on his mercy, so that as we leave this Church we can lavishly spend it. We cry out <em>Kyrie, eleison<\/em>. We invoke him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. We proclaim that we\u2019re not worthy to receive him but we beg\u00a0him only to say the word and forgive our debts so that he may enter under our roof. And with Jesus inside us, with Mercy Incarnate abiding in us, how can we not forgive others like he forgives us? There\u2019s a beautiful silent prayer that the priest says at the altar that describes what our whole approach should be to the Mass. The priest says it after offering the chalice, right before his hands are washed. It\u2019s derived\u00a0from today\u2019s first reading from the Book of Daniel. \u201c<em>In spiritu humilitatis, et in animo contrito suscipiamur a te, Domine: et sic fiat sacrificum nostrum\u00a0in conspectu tuo hodie, ut placeat tibi, Domine Deus.\u201d \u201c<\/em>But with contrite heart and humble spirit\u00a0let us be received [by you, Lord]; so let our sacrifice be in your presence today,\u201d \u00a0that it may be pleasing to you, Lord God. We present\u00a0<em>ourselves<\/em> with a humility and contrition so that God the Father can transform us by his mercy to become his mercy. Let\u2019s present ourselves that way today because the Lord does remember his mercy and wants to help us never to forget it and to help others come to know it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/daniel\/3:25\">DN 3:25, 34-43<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud:<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cFor your name\u2019s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever,<br \/>\nor make void your covenant.<br \/>\nDo not take away your mercy from us,<br \/>\nfor the sake of Abraham, your beloved,<br \/>\nIsaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,<br \/>\nTo whom you promised to multiply their offspring<br \/>\nlike the stars of heaven,<br \/>\nor the sand on the shore of the sea.<br \/>\nFor we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other nation,<br \/>\nbrought low everywhere in the world this day<br \/>\nbecause of our sins.<br \/>\nWe have in our day no prince, prophet, or leader,<br \/>\nno burnt offering, sacrifice, oblation, or incense,<br \/>\nno place to offer first fruits, to find favor with you.<br \/>\nBut with contrite heart and humble spirit<br \/>\nlet us be received;<br \/>\nAs though it were burnt offerings of rams and bullocks,<br \/>\nor thousands of fat lambs,<br \/>\nSo let our sacrifice be in your presence today<br \/>\nas we follow you unreservedly;<br \/>\nfor those who trust in you cannot be put to shame.<br \/>\nAnd now we follow you with our whole heart,<br \/>\nwe fear you and we pray to you.<br \/>\nDo not let us be put to shame,<br \/>\nbut deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.<br \/>\nDeliver us by your wonders,<br \/>\nand bring glory to your name, O Lord.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/25:4\">PS 25:4-5AB, 6 AND 7BC, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (6a)\u00a0Remember your mercies, O Lord.<br \/>\nYour ways, O LORD, make known to me;<br \/>\nteach me your paths,<br \/>\nGuide me in your truth and teach me,<br \/>\nfor you are God my savior.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember your mercies, O Lord.<br \/>\nRemember that your compassion, O LORD,<br \/>\nand your kindness are from of old.<br \/>\nIn your kindness remember me,<br \/>\nbecause of your goodness, O LORD.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember your mercies, O Lord.<br \/>\nGood and upright is the LORD;<br \/>\nthus he shows sinners the way.<br \/>\nHe guides the humble to justice,<br \/>\nhe teaches the humble his way.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Remember your mercies, O Lord.<\/p>\n<h4>Verse Before The Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/joel\/2:12\">JL 2:12-13<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Even now, says the LORD,<br \/>\nreturn to me with your whole heart;<br \/>\nfor I am gracious and merciful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/18:21\">MT 18:21-35<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Peter approached Jesus and asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, if my brother sins against me,<br \/>\nhow often must I forgive him?<br \/>\nAs many as seven times?\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered, \u201cI say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.<br \/>\nThat is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king<br \/>\nwho decided to settle accounts with his servants.<br \/>\nWhen he began the accounting,<br \/>\na debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.<br \/>\nSince he had no way of paying it back,<br \/>\nhis master ordered him to be sold,<br \/>\nalong with his wife, his children, and all his property,<br \/>\nin payment of the debt.<br \/>\nAt that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said,<br \/>\n\u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.\u2019<br \/>\nMoved with compassion the master of that servant<br \/>\nlet him go and forgave him the loan.<br \/>\nWhen that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants<br \/>\nwho owed him a much smaller amount.<br \/>\nHe seized him and started to choke him, demanding,<br \/>\n\u2018Pay back what you owe.\u2019<br \/>\nFalling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him,<br \/>\n\u2018Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.\u2019<br \/>\nBut he refused.<br \/>\nInstead, he had him put in prison<br \/>\nuntil he paid back the debt.<br \/>\nNow when his fellow servants saw what had happened,<br \/>\nthey were deeply disturbed, and went to their master<br \/>\nand reported the whole affair.<br \/>\nHis master summoned him and said to him, \u2018You wicked servant!<br \/>\nI forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.<br \/>\nShould you not have had pity on your fellow servant,<br \/>\nas I had pity on you?\u2019<br \/>\nThen in anger his master handed him over to the torturers<br \/>\nuntil he should pay back the whole debt.<br \/>\nSo will my heavenly Father do to you,<br \/>\nunless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-7.47.44-PM.png.webp?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28721\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-29-at-7.47.44-PM.png.webp?resize=262%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2517\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28720-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?powerpress_pinw=28720-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"3.5.24_Homily_1.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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