Sunday Sermon

Our Lord speaks to us in the Gospel to remind us that if we would be forgiven of our sins, then we also must forgive each other. Only the forgiving heart can be forgiven. This must be our fundamental thought: to cultivate a forgiving heart. Today as ever, the world encourages the heart to keep grudges, to remember past wrongs, to be unforgiving of anyone who would dare injure our pride. This way leads to enslavement to wrong-doing, and is a path to spiritual and societal destruction. Let us open our hearts today to the grace of the Lord, so that we might learn the difficult but necessary lesson of how to be truly forgiving.