09/13/2026
Hello everyone and peace!
This Sunday’s Gospel continues Jesus’ teaching about relationships within the Christian community. Peter asks Jesus how many times he should forgive someone who has wronged him, suggesting seven times. Jesus responds that forgiveness should have no such limit. To explain this, Jesus tells the parable of the unforgiving servant.
In the parable, a servant owes a king an enormous debt that he could never repay. When the servant begs for mercy, the king compassionately forgives the entire debt. Yet the same servant later refuses to forgive a fellow servant who owes him a much smaller amount. When the king learns what happened, he is angry because the servant received great mercy but was unwilling to show mercy to another.
Jesus reminds us that forgiveness is not about keeping count. God has shown us a mercy far greater than anything we could earn or deserve, and that mercy should transform the way we treat others. Because we have been forgiven, we are called to forgive—not always because it is easy, but because the mercy we receive from God is meant to be shared with one another.
