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The Season of Mercy-Reflection 3/29 apostleshipofprayer Mar 28, 2011 Forgiveness is never easy. Father Kubicki examines the Gospel in which Peter asks Jesus how many times he must forgive someone. For …More
The Season of Mercy-Reflection 3/29

apostleshipofprayer Mar 28, 2011 Forgiveness is never easy. Father Kubicki examines the Gospel in which Peter asks Jesus how many times he must forgive someone. For us this forgiveness and mercy is always available through the sacrament of Reconciliation.
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MARCH 29, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
FORGIVENESS FROM THE HEART
March 29, 2011
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
Introductory Prayer: Lord Jesus, as I prepare for the coming of
Easter during this Lenten season, I turn to you in prayer. You have
been merciful to me. Many times you have pardoned the great debt I
owe. I trust in your merciful love and wish to transmit your love to
many others …More
MARCH 29, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
FORGIVENESS FROM THE HEART
March 29, 2011
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
Introductory Prayer: Lord Jesus, as I prepare for the coming of
Easter during this Lenten season, I turn to you in prayer. You have
been merciful to me. Many times you have pardoned the great debt I
owe. I trust in your merciful love and wish to transmit your love to
many others faithfully. Here I am, Lord, ready to learn from your
tender heart.
Petition: Lord, enlighten me to your gift of mercy.
1. An Unpayable Debt Peter asks Jesus how many times he should
forgive his brother. Jesus gives a short answer, telling a parable to
make sure his answer is understood. In the parable God is the king,
and we are all the servants who owe the king a huge amount. We are
all in debt to God. He created us and keeps us in existence and
gives us every good thing we have, every talent and virtue. We owe
God everything. He owes us nothing. Do my daily thoughts and actions
reflect this truth?
2. The Forgiving King The servant, not being able to pay, falls to
his knees and begs for more time so that he can pay back the debt.
The king offers him more than just time - he pardons the entire debt.
God is generous. When we turn to him and ask for forgiveness, he
offers us much more than we could hope for - he pardons our entire
debt. Then why, we might ask, does the king settle accounts with his
servant if he is so generous? Why not pardon the debt from the
beginning instead of ordering him along with his wife and children to
be sold? He calls the servant to account so that the servant will
realize how much he owes and in realizing this, he might imitate God
when dealing with his fellow-worker. God does not want us to be
punished for our sins. He desires to forgive us the great debt we owe
him, but he calls us to account for our sins in the hope that we
will recognize how much we have both received from him and owe to him
and thus will ask for forgiveness.
3. Unequal Treatment and Abuse of Freedom After being pardoned, the
servant does not treat his debtor in the same merciful manner. He
sends him to prison. He had every right to do so. In justice, his
fellow servant owed him money; but in doing so he abuses the liberty
that he has just been given. He does not stop to reflect that in this
moment he himself should rightly be in slavery, sold along with his
wife and children in order to pay his debt. He does not reflect that
he is able to confront his fellow servant only because the king has
had pity on him in the first place, giving him liberty. The offenses
we suffer from our fellow men are real offenses, but before we
demand justice we must stop and reflect that it is only because God
has forgiven us our sins that we have the liberty to demand
reparation from our fellow men. That reflection must lead us to have
the same mercy with our fellow men that God has had with us.
Conversation with Christ: Lord thank you for this time of prayer.
I must recognize that you have been merciful with me and forgiven me
the great debt I owe. Thank you for the many times you have given me
a second chance. During this time of Lent, help me to practice mercy
toward those who owe or offend me.

Resolution: I will think of someone who has offended me and say a
prayer asking God to help me forgive them.
meditation.regnumchristi.org
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Saints March 29
Archinimus
Armogastes of Africa
Aule of Viviers
Barachasius
Berthold of Mount Carmel
Cyril of Heliopolis
Diemut of Wessobrunn
Eustace of Luxeuil
Firminus of Viviers
Gery of Sens
Gladys
Gundleus of Newport
Gwynllyw
Hugh of Vaucelles
Jeanne Marie de Maille
Jonas of Hubaham
Lasar
Ludolf of Ratzeburg
Mark
Mark of Arethusa
Pastor of Nicomedia
Rupert of Salzburg
Saturus of Africa
Secundus …More
Saints March 29
Archinimus
Armogastes of Africa
Aule of Viviers
Barachasius
Berthold of Mount Carmel
Cyril of Heliopolis
Diemut of Wessobrunn
Eustace of Luxeuil
Firminus of Viviers
Gery of Sens
Gladys
Gundleus of Newport
Gwynllyw
Hugh of Vaucelles

Jeanne Marie de Maille
Jonas of Hubaham
Lasar
Ludolf of Ratzeburg
Mark
Mark of Arethusa
Pastor of Nicomedia
Rupert of Salzburg
Saturus of Africa
Secundus of Asti
Victorinus of Nicomedia
William of Neuenburg
saints.sqpn.com/29-march
William Tempier
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Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
Reading 1
Dn 3:25, 34-43
Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud:
“For your name’s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever,
or make void your covenant.
Do not take away your mercy from us,
for the sake of Abraham, your beloved,
Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,
To whom you promised to multiply their offspring
like the stars of heaven,
or the …More
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

Reading 1
Dn 3:25, 34-43
Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud:
“For your name’s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever,
or make void your covenant.
Do not take away your mercy from us,
for the sake of Abraham, your beloved,
Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,
To whom you promised to multiply their offspring
like the stars of heaven,
or the sand on the shore of the sea.
For we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other nation,
brought low everywhere in the world this day
because of our sins.
We have in our day no prince, prophet, or leader,
no burnt offering, sacrifice, oblation, or incense,
no place to offer first fruits, to find favor with you.
But with contrite heart and humble spirit
let us be received;
As though it were burnt offerings of rams and bullocks,
or thousands of fat lambs,
So let our sacrifice be in your presence today
as we follow you unreservedly;
for those who trust in you cannot be put to shame.
And now we follow you with our whole heart,
we fear you and we pray to you.
Do not let us be put to shame,
but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.
Deliver us by your wonders,
and bring glory to your name, O Lord.”

Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9Responsorial Psalm
R. (6a) Remember your mercies, O Lord.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.
Remember that your compassion, O LORD,
and your kindness are from of old.
In your kindness remember me,
because of your goodness, O LORD.
R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.

Mt 18:21-35Gospel
Peter approached Jesus and asked him,
“Lord, if my brother sins against me,
how often must I forgive him?
As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
That is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king
who decided to settle accounts with his servants.
When he began the accounting,
a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
Since he had no way of paying it back,
his master ordered him to be sold,
along with his wife, his children, and all his property,
in payment of the debt.
At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’
Moved with compassion the master of that servant
let him go and forgave him the loan.
When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants
who owed him a much smaller amount.
He seized him and started to choke him, demanding,
‘Pay back what you owe.’
Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’
But he refused.
Instead, he had him put in prison
until he paid back the debt.
Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened,
they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master
and reported the whole affair.
His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,
as I had pity on you?’
Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers
until he should pay back the whole debt.
So will my heavenly Father do to you,
unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.”
www.usccb.org/nab/today.shtml
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