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Going deeper with the Word: Fr. Otto Week of September 13th:

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Did you realize the amount that the merciless servant was forgiven by the master was so huge? It would have taken him 162 thousand years to repay the debt, it would have been impossible!

Do you realize how much we have received from our Father through the gift of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection? We are free from sin and we are free all the more to be his sons and daughters who receive his merciful gratuities, unconditional overwhelming love and power as his sons and daughters to be that merciful love in the world.

Read paragraph 2843 in the Catechism:

"So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart." It is there, in fact, "in the depths of the heart," that everything is bound and loosed. It is not in our power not to feel or to forget an offense; but the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming the hurt into intercession.

Spend some time praying into especially the last half of that paragraph in which through intercessory prayer we are called to turn what has hurt us into merciful forgiving love. Through Gods merciful grace we realize that hurt people hurt. We pray that we receive the grace to pray for the hurts of those who have hurt us to be healed. In doing this we are following Jesus. If your mind and heart hasn’t been blown away by this Gospel, read it again.