Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Woe to Those...

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 10-13-21 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 11:42-46

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.”

Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority. At the core of Jesus’ program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens, to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well. If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing, at the same time, to help them bear it.

When were you cured by Christ and how? What was it like to receive, through the Church, his healing touch? When did you feel ostracized, despised, unworthy—and how did Christ, through his Church, restore you to health and communion? Remember that moment and share it.

[MurphsLaw]

+++The Lord said:
“Woe to you Pharisees!
You pay tithes of mint and of rue
and of every garden herb,
but you pay no attention to judgment
and to love for God.
These you should have done, without
overlooking the others.
Woe to you Pharisees!
You love the seat of honor in
synagogues
and greetings in marketplaces.
Woe to you!
You are like unseen graves over
which people unknowingly walk.”

Then one of the scholars of the law
said to him in reply,
“Teacher, by saying this you are
insulting us too.”
And he said, “Woe also to you
scholars of the law!
You impose on people burdens hard to
carry,
but you yourselves do not lift one
finger to touch them.”+++

[ebb tide]

Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority.

Barron could very well be talking about the dictator pope, Bergoglio, and his terrible Traditionis Custodes.