March 7, 2024. Gospel Matt 23:1-12. Tuesday of the second week of Lent.

Matt 23:1-12 “23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 23:2. Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 23:3. All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not. 23:4. For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them. 23:5. And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. Phylacteries. . .that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem more zealous for the law. 23:6. And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues, “23:7. And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. 23:8. But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren. 23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. Call none your father—Neither be ye called masters, etc. . .The meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 23:15,) and for our masters and teachers. 23:10. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ. 23:11. He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. 23:12. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.” Excerpt From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-bible-douay-rheims-complete/id955129088 This material may be protected by copyright.