{"id":4158,"date":"2024-03-06T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popehistory.com\/?page_id=4158"},"modified":"2024-03-07T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:42:25","slug":"tuesday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-day-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/popehistory.com\/lent\/tuesday-of-the-third-week-of-lent-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent – Day 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PRAY:<\/strong>
“Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide in me your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior.” (Psalm 25:4-5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READING: Matthew 18:21-35<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

21<\/strong> Then Peter went up to him and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 <\/strong>Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 <\/strong>‘And so the kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 <\/strong>When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 <\/strong>he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 <\/strong>At this, the servant threw himself down at his master’s feet, with the words, “Be patient with me and I will pay the whole sum.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27 <\/strong>And the servant’s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28 <\/strong>Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow-servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him, saying, “Pay what you owe me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 <\/strong>His fellow-servant fell at his feet and appealed to him, saying, “Be patient with me and I will pay you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 <\/strong>But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31 <\/strong>His fellow-servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

32 <\/strong>Then the master sent for the man and said to him, “You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33 <\/strong>Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow-servant just as I had pity on you?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

34 <\/strong>And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

35 <\/strong>And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.’

MEDITATION:<\/strong>
I owe God a debt I can never repay, yet he cancels my debts and embraces me. Let me cancel the debts of those around me, as God as helped me, let me help others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LET US PRAY:<\/strong>
Thank you, Lord, for canceling the debt incurred by my sin. May I have the mercy to cancel the debts of those who owe me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACTION:<\/strong>
I will find a way to show mercy. I will cancel a debt, or pardon an injustice against me. I will find a way to forgive as I have been forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next>> Day 22<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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