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Mass Scripture Readings, Saturday, 11th Week of Ordinary Time, June 22, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings, Saturday, 11th Week of Ordinary Time, June 22, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings, Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Friday, June 21, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings, Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Friday, June 21, 2013

Pope Francis General Audience, June 19, 2013

Pope Francis General Audience, June 19, 2013

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Mass Scripture Readings, Thursday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 20, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings, Thursday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 20, 2013

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Pope Francis Speaks Out Against Hypocrisy

Pope Francis today spoke out against hypocrisy at his daily mass from Casa Santa Marta:

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“Jesus says: ‘You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to others.’ They are ethicists without goodness, they do not know what goodness is. But they are ethicists, aren’t they? ‘You have to do this, and this, and this . . .’ They fill you with precepts, but without goodness. And those are some of the phylacteries, of the tassels they lengthen, so many things, to make a pretence of being majestic, perfect, they have no sense of beauty. They have no sense of beauty. They achieve only the beauty of a museum. They are intellectuals without talent, ethicists without goodness, the bearers of museum beauty. These are the hypocrites that Jesus rebukes so strongly. 

“But He doesn’t stop there,” Pope Francis continued. “In today’s Gospel, the Lord speaks about another class of hypocrites, ‘holy rollers’ [It: quelli che vanno sul sacro]: 

“The Lord speaks about fasting, about prayer, about almsgiving: the three pillars of Christian piety, of interior conversion, that the Church proposes to us all in Lent. There are even hypocrites along this path, who make a show of fasting, of giving alms, of praying. I think that when hypocrisy reaches this point in the relation with God, we are coming very close to the sin against the Holy Spirit. These do not know beauty, they do not know love, these do not know the truth: they are small, cowardly.”

“We think about the hypocrisy in the Church: how bad it makes all of us,” Pope Francis said candidly. Instead he pointed out another “icon” for imitation, a person described in another passage of the Gospel: the publican who prayed with humble simplicity, “Have mercy on me, O


Text from page http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/06/19/pope_francis_condemns_hypocrisy/en1-702937 
of the Vatican Radio website 

 

Mass Scripture Readings: Wednesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 19, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings: Wednesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 19, 2013

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Mass Scripture Readings, Tuesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 18, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings, Tuesday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 18, 2013

Mass Scripture Readings: Monday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 17, 2013

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Mass Scripture Readings, Sunday, 11th Week in Ordinary Time, June 16, 2013

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Mass Scripture Readings, Saturday, 10th Week in Ordinary Time, June 15, 2013

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