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Today's Gospel
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3 min
Gospel
Mt 23:27-32
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Readings are from Dynamic Catholic’s New Testament Bible: RSV Catholic Edition
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Transcript
You Don’t Want to Hear This Message
Anytime Jesus says, "Woe to you," it has an effect on me because I think none of us would like Jesus to be saying woe to you. None of us would like Jesus to be saying to us, "Woe to you, Matthew, you hypocrite, for you are like a whitewashed tomb." None of us wants to hear Jesus talk to us that way. But I think it's important for us to meditate on the gospel that way. I think it's important for us to meditate on Jesus speaking every single word in the gospel directly to us so that we can pray through that. Because, hey, there are woeful things about me, and there are woeful things in my life. So I'm well and deserving of a good woe to you from Jesus.
And fortunately, he's a loving God who loves sinners and loves second chances and new beginnings and all that sort of thing. But I think the idea that struck me today is that meditating on the words that Jesus speaks in the gospels, as if they're being spoken to us, elevates our spirituality to a new level. What is Jesus saying to you today? Have a great day, and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
