Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

Hearts most important

Breathed soul into material body

First formed, then gave it will, the heart

like a cup, outside nice, but main purpose what inside.

so God’s way (sacramental)

mat world, then life

OT prepares physical earthly, NT Spiritual

earthly people to dwell in

matter then Spirit which gives matter life

without spirit empty husk or worse

hearts most imp

Earthly, material pointing to NT Spiritual

water washing slavery

death penalty for mortal sin

innocent lamb death

earthly kingdom of Jerusalem

promises this life

Whole OT was earthly and given life spirit in New

DEFINITION sacrament

just like sacrament its internal matters most

goes from external actions to heart of matter

Purity Law vs Moral Law

because of this change from earthly to spirit

from external to heart

..misunderstand laws of OT

more external to prepare way of Lord (explain)

purity laws for Jews (not moral laws that bind all)

washing, eating certain things, mixing fabrics, etc

Once gentiles united to judaism, no need for this external separation

purity laws didnt get abolished,

rather no longer a purpose to separating gentile from Jew

Their whole purpose was to prepare for God to dwell in us by these external signs

but many were more concerned with external purity than moral law

unfortunately made them just like gentiles supposed to be different from

doing external rituals to purify w/ gods, but their hearts filled with malice

brings to Gospel.

Trad v trad

traditions of men

Not a statement against oral traditions of God

as Matt 23:3 auth to pronounce them

later in apostles 2 thes 2:15 and 1 Cor 11:2 after all

...rather merely human (call these {t}raditions)

Even those allowed and even good, but not contradict Traditions of God

examples

sport sundays

gifts on Christmas

private devotions

here obsession w/ appearance, earth, external, not heart

pharisees cleansed outside that doesnt matter and didnt let Gods spirit be breathed into their heart

Today/for us

Do we care more about external than interior?

appearing good when people see it, but evil in thoughts and private

keeping physically healthy but not spiritually healthy

being merely nice but not good

conclusion

God breathed life into material body

God starts with the outside to prepare the way to enter into us

where God wishes to dwell is not our outside but inside

no life if not in our hearts

Do not be good by appearances only, but truly from the heart

what is important is our heart

Notes

Me

prepared a body, now gives it the more important: soul

Commentators

Pitre

breaking decalogue but upholding external rituals they made up

Greek terms

“dialogismos” means evil plans, not undeliberate thoughts

porneia (at time) means unchastity in 1st cent context

envy, ‘evil eye’ literally

foolishness, ‘imprudence’ irrational acts

“driving law into the heart of the human being where he wants it”

tradition

matt 23:1.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 “So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.”

1 Corinthians 11:2 “I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.”

trad of men vs of us (apostolic, God sent)

CCC 83

Threskia: ‘religion’