True Religion

HOMILY22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - 30 August 2009Readings: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23“The Pharisees and scribes questioned him, ‘Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?’” (Mk 7,5)To this apparently simple question, Jesus responded with a polemic against the Pharisees and