Gospel (Mt 18,15-20) - At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: «If your brother commits a fault against you, go and warn him between you and him alone; if he listens to you, you will have gained your brother; if he doesn't listen, take one or two more people with you, so that everything can be resolved on the word of two or three witnesses. If he doesn't listen to them, tell the community; and if he does not even listen to the community, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector. Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Truly I say to you again: if two of you on earth agree to ask for anything, my Father who is in heaven will grant it to them. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."

The commentary on the Gospel by Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

This evangelical passage reminds us that correction and fraternal forgiveness - which are central dimensions in the life of the Christian community - require great attention and sensitivity. There is, in fact, a way of not saying things to others which is not respect, but indifference. Every believer has the duty to correct his brother when he makes a mistake, just as everyone has the right to be forgiven when he has made a mistake. Unfortunately, we live in a society that is losing the sense of forgiveness. And this happens because he first lost the debt of mutual love that is asked of us by the Lord. The strength of this rediscovered love is shown in the unity of the disciples who pray together. Jesus says to them: "Truly I say to you again: if two of you on earth agree to ask for anything, my Father who is in heaven will give it to them." These are challenging words, more for God himself than for us. The agreement of the disciples in asking for the same thing, whatever it is, binds God himself in granting it. This is the meaning of the words spoken by Jesus. It is to say that harmony in prayer, agreement in a single will constitutes immense power. If our prayers are not answered, we must question ourselves about our way of praying which is perhaps fundamentally flawed by individualism and indifference. How often our prayer is marked by laziness, by the lack of love in worrying about the problems and anxieties of the entire community, of the world around us. And how many wait for the charity of a prayer that no one grants! With spiritual wisdom John Paul II spoke of his prayer linked to "geography", that is to the various places or different situations of suffering that he read in the newspapers or of which he was informed. We too can do the same.