Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
The Gospel today invites Catholics to reflect on whether we are like those scribes and Pharisees who were more interested in their public image than in living in accordance with the truth. We must be careful to practice whatever we teach, so that we can be living witnesses to the truth.
Read MoreIn the passage from Exodus, one of the social laws which people must observe is the care of “aliens”, widows, and orphans. Another word for “alien” is immigrant.
Read MoreInterestingly, the First Reading is the only passage in the Old Testament that refers to a Gentile ruler as the Lord’s “anointed”. Unbeknownst to him, King Cyrus the Great, ruler of the mighty Persian Empire, was called by the Lord even before he knew the Lord.
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