July 27 - Saturday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.7:1-11; Ps.84:2-6,8,11; Mt.13:24-30) “Reform your ways and your deeds, so that I may remain with you in this place.” We hear again today of the failure of “the temple of the Lord” and its sacrifices to bring the Israelites to the eternal presence of God. For though the Lord “sowed good seed in His field,” though He made His temple a house of prayer, it has become “a den of thieves” in the eyes of His chosen. And the Lord “see[s] what is being done.” And because they “steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, [and] burn incense to Baal,” the Israelites break the covenant upon which…
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