Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Sir 27:30—28:7; Ps 103; Rom 14:7–9; Matt 18:21–35 Picture Jerusalem around 180 B.C. For more than a century and a half the Greeks have run the eastern Mediterranean. Greek is the language of contracts, classrooms, and anyone who wants to look important. Jewish life is being quietly squeezed—not by swords … Continue reading Ben Sira’s House Rules