My Dear parishioners of St Matthew’s and all visitors,
The reading of today provides us with one of the very moving, dramatic and instructive stories of such acceptance in the Gospels.
The woman who had a bad name comes to Jesus and kisses and washes his feet with tears. The sign of repentance.
Every saint is a reformed sinner. A saint is the one who recognises the ‘sinner’ part in himself or herself.
Today Jesus invites us to cancel debts and forgive those who have trespassed against us: Yet our wounds may be deep.
Forgiveness may seem unthinkable. But if we do not forgive, then how can we say the Lord’s Prayer and truly mean it?
May God Bless each and everyone of you,
Fr Joseph
The reading of today provides us with one of the very moving, dramatic and instructive stories of such acceptance in the Gospels.
The woman who had a bad name comes to Jesus and kisses and washes his feet with tears. The sign of repentance.
Every saint is a reformed sinner. A saint is the one who recognises the ‘sinner’ part in himself or herself.
Today Jesus invites us to cancel debts and forgive those who have trespassed against us: Yet our wounds may be deep.
Forgiveness may seem unthinkable. But if we do not forgive, then how can we say the Lord’s Prayer and truly mean it?
May God Bless each and everyone of you,
Fr Joseph
