August 24, 2026

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 2 Thess 3: 6-10, 16-18; Mt 23: 27-32 Today’s Gospel continues yesterday’s discussion on religious hypocrisy.  Today, Jesus accuses the scribes and Pharisees of their double-dealing behaviour.  Like the whitewashed tomb that only housed the bones of the dead and every kind of filth, they had no problem pretending to be who […]

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17; Mt 23: 23-26 Today’s Gospel invites us to focus on the ‘weightier things of God’s law.’ Matthew 23 deals with a series of ‘eight’ woes (including verse 14 as opposed to the ‘Seven-Woe-View’ that skips verse 14) that serve as the antithesis of the eight beatitudes that