You can turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 73. Psalm 73, if you just open up the middle of your

Bible, typically you somewhere fall in the book of Psalms and we're going to be in Psalm 73 today.

And I'm actually going to ask, as you're finding your place there, let Saul stand for the reading of God's Word today.

You're probably thinking, like, I didn't know I was coming to Catholic Mass today.

There's a lot of standing up and sitting down and standing back up.

I'd love to stand with you as we read God's Word together. And this Psalm, in Psalm 73, the writer is not David, but actually a man named Asaph. And so he writes this in Psalm 73, verse one, he says,

truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure and heart.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped.

For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride serves as their necklace.

Violence covers them like a garment.

Their eyes bulge with abundance.

They have more than their heart could wish.

They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression. They speak loftily. They set their mouth against

the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth. Therefore, his people return here,

and waters of a full cup are drained by them and they say how does god know

and is there knowledge in the most high behold these are the ungodly who are always at ease they increase in

riches surely i have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocence. For all day long I have been

plagued and chastened every morning. If I had said I will speak thus, behold, I would have been

untrue to the generation of your children. When I thought how to understand this, it was too

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