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00:23Let us pray.
00:25Praise and honour and glory be to you, O Christ, Son of the Living God, God Most High,
00:32who has created me and formed my soul after your own divine image and likeness,
00:39and has made me capable of everlasting happiness.
00:43Grant that I may serve you, my Lord, my God and my Father, with a faithful heart,
00:49that I may fight against my sins with a holy hatred,
00:54and that all sinful passion and affection being destroyed within me,
00:58I may be renewed in perfect innocence of life.
01:04Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ,
01:07who has given me for my use the heaven, the earth, the sea and all the things that are in
01:12them,
01:13and has granted them for my service and comfort.
01:19Permit I beseech you, O Lord, that I may never abuse your creatures,
01:24but that all the works of your hands may tell of your goodness,
01:28and may lead me to admire, to know, and to love you.
01:34Praise and honour and glory be to you, O Christ,
01:37who, out of your affection for me,
01:40granted me to be born in the true Christian faith,
01:43and has mercifully brought me up from the beginning of my life,
01:48supplying me with food and the other necessaries
01:50for the nourishment and support of my body.
01:54May my heart find no relish except in and through you.
01:59May you alone possess my innermost soul.
02:03May I exceedingly hunger for you,
02:06the bread of heaven,
02:07and thirst for you, the fountain of life,
02:10so that this life's exile ended,
02:13and I may deserve to be satisfied with the joys of your eternal perfection.
02:19Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
02:22who, up until this time,
02:25has preserved and delivered me from countless dangers of soul and body,
02:29even when I abused your gifts,
02:32not deserting me.
02:35Illuminate my heart, I beseech you,
02:38with the brightness of your grace,
02:41the truly perceiving your goodness to me,
02:43and my own ingratitude toward you.
02:47I may bemoan myself,
02:50I may be hateful in my own sight,
02:53but I may please you,
02:55my Creator and my only Redeemer,
02:58in all things.
03:01Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
03:04who, when I lie immersed in the most loathsome vices,
03:08and was leading a most ungodly life,
03:11in your long-suffering,
03:13bore with me for such a long time,
03:15and brought me to repentance.
03:18Grant, that my acceptable contrition and holy works,
03:22I may expiate the stains of my past sin,
03:26and that from now on I may lead a life of purity,
03:29and love you above all things with most burning love.
03:36Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
03:39who, when I was on the brink of the very precipice,
03:42and just within the jaws of hell,
03:45did not permit me to perish,
03:47but called me, though deaf,
03:49and trying to run from you to the way of salvation.
03:54Grant, that from now on I may follow after you with humble devotion,
03:59and with a joyful heart,
04:01correspond to your holy inspirations,
04:04with from my heart farewell to all things,
04:09and may cleave inseparably to you alone.
04:15Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ,
04:18who always directed me, the vilest of sinners,
04:21has protected me,
04:23has looked upon me with the eyes of mercy,
04:25and still so fondly supports and cherishes me with your goodness.
04:30Despite my daily transgressions,
04:33as if forgetful of all others,
04:36you cared for me alone.
04:39Grant, that I also may love you most ardently,
04:43leaving all transitory things for your sake,
04:46and may think of you alone,
04:48and may with a ready mind and in all places,
04:51follow and perform your holy will.
04:55Amen.
04:59O Lord, open our lips,
05:02and our mouths shall sing your praise.
05:12Holy joy, faithful Lord,
05:16holy man,
05:18turn the Lord with gladness,
05:22and come with all his praise.
05:25and bring us home.
05:29Be sure that the Lord,
05:32he is God.
05:35This is me that can bring us,
05:38and most we ourselves.
05:40We are his people,
05:43the king of his master.
06:06All the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting.
06:16And his truth and glory from generation to generation.
06:30Glory be to the Father, and to the Father, and to the Holy Ghost,
06:41as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
07:11I will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart,
07:17secretly among the faithful and in the congregation.
07:24The works of the Lord are great,
07:29so those of all members of the congregation may be.
07:34His work is worthy to be praised and hallowed,
07:42and his righteousness endureth forever.
07:48The merciful and gracious Lord has so done his powerless works,
07:56as they are to be held in remembrance.
08:01He hath given meat unto them at him.
08:08He shall ever be thine rule of his covenant.
08:14He hath shown his people the power of his works,
08:20that he may give them the heritage of the people.
08:25The works of this land of beity and judgment,
08:33all his commandments are true.
08:38He sent us for heaven and heaven,
08:44and under him to them and within.
08:48He sent redemption unto his people.
08:55He hath come up and his covenant for heaven,
09:00for he hath reverent his claim.
09:06The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his life,
09:11His covenant of birth.
09:13While the Lord is worthy,
09:15for he is worthy of the akan.
09:18The Lord has his glory and praise,
09:20The praise of the Lord is therodfly.
09:26For he is done and alone a fire,
09:29For he should be one of his民i die.
09:29For he has fallen in the fire,
09:31For he shall be met with his favour,
09:32And in theickening bundle of his re-s ди- terrorists.
09:37Christ is born to the redeemed, is now and never shed in,
09:47yet is our King, Amen.
10:05The Gospel according to Saint Matthew, chapters 18 and 19.
10:13Then Peter came to Jesus and said, Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me?
10:22As many as seven times?
10:25Jesus said to him, Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.
10:32For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle a camp with his slaves.
10:39As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.
10:46Because he was not able to repay it, the Lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children,
10:53and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
10:58Then the slave threw himself to the ground before him, saying, Be patient with me, and I will repay you
11:05everything.
11:08The Lord had compassion of the slave and released him, forgiving him the debt.
11:14After he went out, the same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins.
11:21And so he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, Pay back what you owe me.
11:29Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, Be patient with me, and I will repay you.
11:36But he refused.
11:38Instead, he went out and threw him into prison until he repaid the debt.
11:44When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset, and went and told their Lord everything that
11:51had taken place.
11:55Then his Lord called the first slave and said to him, Evil slave, I forgave you all that debt because
12:03you begged me.
12:04Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave just as I showed it to you?
12:11In anger, his Lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.
12:21So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your
12:27heart.
12:28Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.
12:36Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
12:42This is the word of the Lord.
12:45Thanks be to God.
12:51So far, the directions given by Jesus have been with a view to the good of the offending brother and
12:58the honour of Christ and his cause.
13:01It remains to be seen how the offended person is to act on his part.
13:06Here the rule is very simple.
13:09Forgive.
13:11What satisfaction then is the offended party to get?
13:16The satisfaction of forgiving.
13:20That is all, and it is enough.
13:25It will be observed indeed that our Lord in his discourse up until the point we have reached in the
13:31current gospel has said nothing directly about forgiveness.
13:35It is fairly implied, however, in the manner of due process, in the very first act of it, indeed.
13:45For no one will go to an offending brother with the object of gaining him for Christ, unless he first
13:53forgive him in his heart.
13:56Peter appears to have been revolving this in his mind, and in so doing he cannot get over a difficulty
14:02as to the limits of forgiveness.
14:06He was familiar, of course, with the traditional rabbinical limit of the third offence, after which the obligation to forgiveness
14:15ceased.
14:17Impressed with the spirit of his master's teaching, he no doubt thought he was showing great liberality in more than
14:23doubling the number of times the offence might be repeated and still be considered pardonable.
14:30Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and forgive him? Seven times?
14:38It has been thought that some of his brothers had perhaps been treating Peter badly, so that his patience was
14:46a little tried.
14:48Be that as it may, the question was not at all unnatural,
14:52but was founded on a fallacy, which our Lord clears away in his answer, thoroughly exposed by means of the
15:00striking parable which followed.
15:03The fallacy was this, that we have the right to resent an injury, that in refraining from this we are
15:11forbearing to exercise our right,
15:13and consequently that there is a limit beyond which we have no call to exercise such forbearance.
15:23Our Lord by his answer cleared away any such limit, and makes the obligation unconditional and universal.
15:34The parable shows the reason why there should be no limit that all believers or members of the church,
15:41by accepting from God his unlimited forgiveness that has been extended to us.
15:48Therefore, we are implicitly obliged to extend a likewise unlimited forgiveness to all others.
15:56There is no duty on which our Lord insists more strenuously than this duty of forgiving those who trespass against
16:06us,
16:07always connecting closely together our forgiving and our being forgiven,
16:12and in this parable it is set out in the strongest possible light.
16:19The greatest offence of which our fellow man can be guilty is as nothing to the sins we have committed
16:27against God.
16:29The proportion suggested is startling.
16:33The larger sum is more than two million pounds on the current possible computation,
16:40but the smaller is not much more than four shillings.
16:45This is no exaggeration.
16:47Seven times altogether for a brother's offences seems almost unpardonable.
16:53Do we not offend against God as many times in one single hour?
16:59So think of the days and the years of our sin.
17:04This is a startling thought on the one side, but how cheering on the other?
17:11For the immensity of the debt does not interfere in the slightest with the freeness, fullness and absoluteness of the
17:19forgiveness.
17:21Truly, there is no more satisfying or reassuring presentation of the gospel than this parable,
17:27especially these very words which rang like the knell of doom in the unmerciful servant's ear.
17:36I forgave you all that debt.
17:40But just in proportion to the grandeur of the gospel here unfolded is the rigour of the requined,
17:47that as we have been forgiven, so must we also forgive.
17:54While we gladly take the abounding comfort, let us not miss the stern lesson clearly given by the very strongest
18:03of feelings.
18:05Our Lord paints the picture of this man in the most hideous colour so as to fill our minds and
18:11our hearts with a proper loathing of the conduct of those he represents.
18:16The same intention is apparent in the very severe terms in which the punishment is denounced.
18:23His Lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors.
18:29After this, how awful is the closing sentence.
18:33So likewise shall my heavenly father do to you,
18:37if you in your hearts do not forgive everyone his brother in their trespasses against him.
18:47Is that tender name of father out of place?
18:51By no means, for it is not the outraged love of God that cries out against the unforgiving soul.
18:59Are the words from your hearts, are they not so hard on poor frail human nature?
19:07It is easy though to grant forgiveness with the lips, but how about from the heart?
19:13And yet so it stands written.
19:16It only shows the need we have, not only of unmeasured mercy, but of unmeasured grace.
19:23Nothing but the love of Christ can constrain to such forgiveness.
19:28The warning was a solemn one, but it need have no terror for those who are truly learning the lesson
19:36of the cross.
19:37And welcoming the spirit of Christ to reign in their hearts.
19:41For I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
19:48There is an admirable fullness and harmony in Christ's teaching of this subject as on every other.
19:56The duty of unlimited forgiveness is most plainly enjoined, but not that weak forgiveness, which consists simply in permitting a
20:05man to trespass as he chooses.
20:10Forgiveness and faithfulness go hand in hand.
20:14The forgiveness of the Christian is in no case to be the offspring of a weak, unmanly indifference to wrong.
20:22But it should spring from gratitude and love.
20:26Gratitude to God who has forgiven our enormous debt.
20:30And love to the enemy who has wronged him.
20:34It must be combined with that faithfulness and fortitude which constrains him to go to the offending party.
20:42And frankly, though kindly, tell him his fault.
20:47Christ's doctrine of forgiveness has not one atom of meanness in it, and his doctrine of faithfulness not a spark
20:55of malice.
20:57The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy
21:06and good fruit, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
21:11And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
21:23There were two main roads from Galilee to Jerusalem.
21:28One passed through Samaria to the west of the Jordan, and the other through Perea to the east.
21:35And it was by the former that our Lord went northward from Judea to begin his work in Galilee.
21:42And it is now by the other that he comes south to complete his sacrifice in Jerusalem.
21:50As he must need go through Samaria, so then he must need go through Perea now.
21:57The main thought in his mind is the journey, but he cannot pass through the large and important district beyond
22:04the Jordan without bringing the kingdom of heaven near to the people.
22:07And accordingly, we read the great multitudes followed him and he healed them there.
22:15We learn also from St. Luke's Gospel that he went through the cities and villages teaching on his journey toward
22:21Jerusalem.
22:23From there, the details are recorded, especially the mission of the 70, which belongs to that period.
22:30It is evident that these circuits in Perea must have occupied several months.
22:37During the work of these months, our evangelist is silent, just as he was silent concerning the earlier work in
22:44Judea and Samaria, as recorded by St. John.
22:49We are reminded by this of the fragmentary nature of these memorials of our Lord.
22:55And when we consider how much is omitted in the narratives, we can understand how difficult it is to form
23:02a closely connected history without any gaps between and with accurately fitted connections at the intersections of the different accounts.
23:14There is, however, for by comparison with the third gospel, we find that our evangelist admits all the circuits in
23:23Perea and takes up the story again when our Lord is just about to leave that region for Jerusalem.
23:30When we take his point of view, we can see how natural this would have been.
23:35It was his special calling to give a full account of his work in Galilee and hence the haste with
23:44which he passes from what is necessary for him to tell of the early years in the south until the
23:49work in Galilee began.
23:51And in the same way, now that the work in Galilee is done, he hastens on to the great crisis
23:58in Jerusalem.
24:00In following the journey southward, he lingers only in two places. Each of them seem to be associated with a
24:07special memory.
24:09One is Capernaum, where Jesus, as we have seen, tarried for a few days before taking his leave of Galilee.
24:17The other is the place beyond the Jordan.
24:21The place where in baptism, he has solemnly entered on his work.
24:28Where again, he remained for a brief period before going up to Jerusalem for the very last time.
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29:28Amen.
29:41Amen.
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