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Jesus authority and power is shown quite clearly: Jesus is the one who gives life instead of taking it.

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"We wanted our Bible to reflect life. In life you are not given the chance to erase your mistakes. Your only choice is to admit the mistake and then move on. In our Bible we wanted to show that, even with the mistake, the page remains a work of art.” (Fr. George Smiga, BuildingontheWord.org)

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The grumbling of the workers from the first hour reflects the grumbling of Jesus’ contemporaries who were outraged at the new thing he was beginning with his disciples: a common life that grew out of constant forgiving.

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Clinging to vengeance tortures us with our vengeance for as long as we are imprisoned by it. 

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When we forgive, we do not forget. Rather, we remember in a different way. 

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The cross is not just a singular event. It’s a statement from God that reality has a cruciform pattern.

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Jesus also calls Simon the son of Jonah. Jonah was the one who went the other way when God sent him to preach to the Ninevites, who are gentiles. Peter, like Jonah, will resist this mission to the gentiles.

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By the end of Matthew’s Gospel, the mission has changed: “Go, Make disciples of all nations." When Matthew is writing the Gospel, the Church has a mission to the Gentiles. Could it be that Matthew is making the point to his community that just as Jesus was able to understand his ministry in a more inclusive way – even of the hated, ancestral enemy of his people – the church, too, has to make this same transition?

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From the FRIENDS Reunion concert at Christ the Redeemer, 2006.

Words and music by Joe Dailey, copyright © 1975 Alba House Media, Canfield OH. Used with permission.

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Perhaps it is the time for the church to learn to apply the lesson of the deep communion we share with God and one another.