GOSPEL
A
person who fails to live the Gospel can never properly guide another person in
it. This is the same as the principle of not being able to give away something
we do not have. I cannot introduce you to a person I do not know myself. Let us
then seek to be faithful witnesses to the truth of the Gospel, so that no one
will call us hypocrites.
GOSPEL
ACCLAMATION
My
sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.
Matthew
23:13-22
13 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the Kingdom of
heaven before men. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to
those trying to
enter. [14]
14 15 “Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, you hypocrites. You traverse sea and land to make one convert, and
when that happens you make him a child of Gehenna twice as much as yourselves. 16 “Woe
to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If one swears by the temple, it means nothing,
but if one swears by the gold of the temple, one is obligated.’ 17 Blind
fools, which is greater, the gold, or the temple that made the gold sacred?18 And you say, ‘If one swears by the altar, it
means nothing, but if one swears by the gift on the altar, one is obligated.’ 19 You
blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift
sacred? 20 One who swears by the altar swears by it and all
that is upon it; 21 one who swears by the temple swears by it and by
him who dwells in it; 22 one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of
God and by him who is seated on it.”
