HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK OF LENT
Homily for Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Matthew 23:1-12. "To one whose way is blameless, I will show the salvation of God," is our Responsorial Psalm today. For our ways to be blameless, prophet Isaiah tells us in the first reading what we must do. "Wash yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow" (Isa.1:16-17). All these can be summed up into two; cease to do evil, learn to do good. These are not something that is difficult to do, they are within our reach to carry out and it is doing them that we won't be like the scribes and the Pharisees that Jesus warned the crowds and his disciples in today's Gospel not to emulate because though they seat on Moses' seat, they do not practise what they preach. In an age where we prefer to be called by our title, take the high table at occasion, and lots more, J...