Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
August 16, 2024
Today’s Readings:
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081624.cfm
Some Pharisees approached Jesus,
Matthew 19:3
and tested him, saying,
“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife
for any cause whatever?”
The Pharisees miss the whole point of the Presence of Jesus. Think of it: here they have the Messiah they have longed for right in their midst. They can talk to him, touch him, listen to him. Instead, they are strangled in rationalizations which prevent them from believing.
Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:
We ask for a clear and innocent faith, one not caught in the need for proofs and signs. May we hold nothing back from God in our practice of faith.
Poetry: Two Went Up Into the Temple to Pray – Richard Crashaw
Two went to pray? O rather say
One went to brag, th’ other to pray:One stands up close and treads on high,
Where th’ other dares not send his eye.One nearer to God’s altar trod,
The other to the altar’s God.
Music: The Pharisee in Me – Temitope
Lavish Mercy 
Hold nothing back from God. That can be challenging
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