Monday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Matt 23: 13-22

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🗓️ 24 August 2025

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Matthew 23: 13-22 - 'Alas for you, blind guides!'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2111 (in 'Superstition') - Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

- 586 (in 'Jesus and the Temple') - Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church. He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God's definitive dwelling-place among men. Therefore his being put to bodily death presaged the destruction of the Temple, which would manifest the dawning of a new age in the history of salvation: "The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father."

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Gospel Exegesis podcast. We're helping you understand the literal sense of
0:19.0	scripture. What do these words mean in their original context?
0:22.4	And we're looking at some of Jesus' harshest words here.
0:26.0	This is a part of the Gospel of Matthew that a lot of people avoid,
0:29.2	because here we see Jesus using some of his strongest language.
0:33.8	So we'll read the text and then we'll dive into it.
0:36.5	Matthew chapter 23 versus 13 to 22.
0:41.4	Jesus said, alas for you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, you who shut up the kingdom of heaven
0:48.7	in men's faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to.
0:55.9	Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
0:59.7	You who travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte,
1:03.9	and when you have him, you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.
1:09.9	Alas for you, blind guides.
1:12.4	You who say, if a man swears by the temple, it has no force.
1:16.6	But if a man swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound.
1:21.2	Fools and blind.
1:23.2	For which is greater worth, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
1:29.6	Or else, if a man swears by the altar, it has no force, but if a man swears by the offering
1:35.4	that is on the altar, he is bound.
1:38.5	You blind men, for which is of greater worth, the offering or the altar that makes the offering sacred?
1:46.2	Therefore, when a man swears by the altar, he is swearing by that and by everything on it.
1:52.5	And when a man swears by the temple, he is swearing by that and by the one who dwells in it.
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