'And because of our traditions everyone knows who he is and what God expects him to do.' Sunday Reflections, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Moses Carlo Dolci [ Web Gallery of Art ] Moses said to the people: “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, is giving you." [First Reading]. Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel Mark 7:1-8, 14-15; 21-23 (English Standard Version, Anglicised) Now when the Pharisees gathered to Jesus, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash [ a ] their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the market-place, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the wash