Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

One of Christ's most brutal criticisms is directed at the sin of hypocrisy.

When I lead pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I take our group to the Mount of Olives overlooking the temple mound in Jerusalem and there

I go over everything Jesus did and taught during Holy Week, the week leading up to the crucifixion.

It was during that week that Jesus went up on the temple mount in Matthew chapter 23 and

confronted the Pharisees and seven times he said to them

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees

hypocrites you serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to

hell?

Now when I hit this scene and this sevenfold indictment, I've noticed that everyone seems to squirm a little.

I think it's because at some level we all feel like hypocrites.

So what is the sin of hypocrisy that enrages Christ so dramatically.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name.

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us

and lead us not into temptation but deliver deliver us from evil Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

Blessed art thou among women, blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, free for a s, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

Hey O Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women,

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