[Officium]
Dominica XXI Post Pentecosten

[Oratio]
Családodat, kérünk, Urunk, őrizd meg örök jóságoddal, hogy védelmed alatt minden bajtól mentes legyen, és jó tettekkel áldozzon nevednek.
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[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent Máté Apostol kőnyvéből
!Matt 18:23-35
At that time Jesus spake unto His disciples this parable The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And so on.
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Homily by St Jerome, Priest (at Bethlehem.)
!Bk, iii. Comment, on Matth. xviii.
It is a way much in use with the Syrians, and especially with the inhabitants of Palestine, to illustrate their discourse with parables, that what their hearers may not be able to catch so easily when spoken plainly, they may lay hold on by dint of comparisons and examples. Thus it was that the Lord, by an allegory about a Royal master and a servant who owed him ten thousand talents, and who obtained by entreaty forgiveness of the debt, taught Peter how it was his duty to forgive his fellow-servants their comparatively trifling offences. For if that Royal master so readily forgave his servant his debt of ten thousand talents, should not his servants much more forgive lesser debts unto their fellows