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Traditions and Commandments
Mar 7:1 One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
Mar 7:2 They noticed that some of His disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
Mar 7:3 (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.
Mar 7:4 Similarly, they don’t eat anything from the market until they immerse their hands in water. This is but one of many traditions they have clung to—such as their ceremonial washing of cups, pitchers, and kettles [and dining couches].)
Mar 7:5 So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”
Mar 7:6 Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Mar 7:7 Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’
Mar 7:8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.”
Mar 7:9 Then He said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
Mar 7:10 For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’
Mar 7:11 But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’
Mar 7:12 In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.
Mar 7:13 And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
You have to distinguish between different kinds of tradition. You will note that the Apostle Paul disparages some kinds of tradition, and praises -— insists upon -— other kinds. (He can’t be disparaging and insisting upon the same thing, so there must be two kinds.). The kind called Sacred Tradition has exactly the same origin (the teaching of Our Lord and of His Apostles) whether it is conveyed by preaching , or teaching, or example, or the texts of letters and Gospels.
St Paul taught exactly that: that Sacred Tradition has the same authority whether oral or written:
(2 Thes 2:15)
“Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, whether by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.”
A distinction must always be made between the "traditions of men" of which Jesus disapproved, and the Sacred Tradition which Paul repeatedly insisted we follow.