DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Hypocrisy – Faith”: In today’s Gospel, Jesus reprimanded the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy. They deceive others; that they are virtuous religious, when in fact, they are full of evil, injustice, immorality. Ponder on, “Do we fall into the temptations of living our faith only “externally”? Are we Christ-like towards our family and others who are in need?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 23:27-32
Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of corruption. In just the same way, from the outside you look upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build the sepulchres of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the upright, saying, “We would never have joined in shedding the blood of the prophets, had we lived in our ancestors’ day.” So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the children of those who murdered the prophets! Very well then, finish off the work that your ancestors began.’