COMMENTARY

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

13 September 2026

Reading 1: Sirach 27:30 – 28:7

“Forgive your neighbour and your sins will be pardoned.”

Reading 2: Romans 14: 7–9

"Whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."

"If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord."

Gospel: Mathew 18: 21–35

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant: The Spirit of Forgiveness

“I tell you, not seven times, but seventy seven times.”

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
‘Be patient with me, I will pay you everything.’