22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Pharisees Question Jesus – James Tissot
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10:30 Livestream Mass
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Sunday Scripture Reflections
Bishop Robert Barron - The Beauty of the Law: Friends, the more we revere something, the more we surround it with laws. The most important thing in our lives is to be in harmony with God, and so we follow his divine law. We must, with prudence and wisdom, distinguish between the commandments of God that structure us, and fussy human traditions that distract from our relationship with him. listen or read more...
Dr. Timothy O'Malley - Defiled Heart, Defiled Hand: Jesus’ disciples eat with defiled hands. But the Pharisees and the scribes will have none of that. They want the disciples to be pure, apart from everyone else. They are worried more about purity than inviting the hoi polloi into the kingdom. This, according to Jesus, is disregarding God’s commandment. read more...
Dr. Scott Hahn - Pure Religion:
Today’s Gospel casts Jesus in a prophetic light as one having authority to interpret God’s law. Jesus’ quotation from Isaiah today is ironic (see Isaiah 29:13). In observing the law, the Pharisees honor God by ensuring that nothing unclean passes their lips. In this, however, they’ve turned the law inside out, making it a matter of simply performing certain external actions.