25 Aug 2021
Warning: Keep Off!
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
For 25 August 2021, Wednesday of week 21 in Ordinary Time, based on Matthew 23:27-32
Jesus said: ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, and you say, “If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.†Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
25 August 2021 @ 11:06 pm
Thank you Erika for challenging us as Jesus does to look first inside ourselves and to be critical of our own self before judging someone else. This is where I find the Examination of Conscience at the end of the day helpful and to rely on the Mercy of God and His grace.
Blessings and peace,
Sr. Brigid, OP
25 August 2021 @ 11:52 pm
Wow! Powerful and instructive preaching. Thank you!