First reading Sir 15: 15-20
Origin really want, you can keep the law, and apply setiapun can choose. Fire and water have been put God in front of you, to what can kaukehendaki kauulurkan hand. Life and death is in front of the man, what is selected will be given to him. Really great is the wisdom of God. He was strong in his power and see everything. God's eyes are upon the righteous to Him.
And all the work of man he knew. God does not send people became wicked, and did not give permission to anyone to sin.
Thus saith the Lord.
Psalm Ps 119: 1-2.4-5.17-18.33-34
Blessed are those who walk in the law of God.
* Blessed are those whose life is blameless, who walk in the law of God. Blessed are those who hold the warnings of his, who seek Him with all their heart.
* You alone have delivered thy precepts, to be held in earnest. It would steady my life to hold on thy statutes!
* Get kindness to your servant, that I may live, and I want to stick to your word. Open my eyes, that I may see wonderful things in your law.
* Hold up to me, O Lord, instructions thy statutes, I will hold it until the last moment. Give me understanding, and I will hold thy law; with all my heart I want to preserve it.
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 2: 6-10
Ladies and Gentlemen, we proclaim the wisdom among those who have matured, not the wisdom of this world, and not the wisdom of the rulers of this world, the rulers who will be eliminated, but the wisdom of God is hidden and secret, before creation of the world God has made available for our glory. None of the rulers of this world who knew him, because if only they knew, they did not crucify the Lord of glory. But as it is written, "What had not been seen by the eye, and was never heard by the ears, and that never arises in the human heart:
What God has prepared for those who love Him. "All that has been expressed to us by God blessing His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even things that are hidden in God.
Thus saith the Lord.
Introduction to the Gospel of Matthew 11:25
I am grateful to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because everything hast revealed them unto the simple.
Gospel reading Matthew 5: 17-37
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught His disciples said to him,
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you, 'Really, until heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
will pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. '
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the commandments of the Torah even the smallest, and teaches it to others, he will be called least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever does and teaches all the commandments of the Torah, he shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven. So I tell you, unless your righteousness no more true than in the religious lives of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to our ancestors: Thou shalt not kill; whoever murders will be punished. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be punished! Whoever says to his brother, 'Infidel!' he should be brought before the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, 'Jahil!' shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore,
if you bring your gift to the altar, and you are thinking of something that is in your brother against you, leave your gift before the altar, and go first to make peace with your brother, and then come back to bring your gift to that. Immediately reconciled with your opponent for you together with him on the way, so that the opponent not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the maid, and you be thrown into prison. I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there,
until you have paid the last penny. You have heard it said, 'Do not commit adultery!' But I tell you: Whoever looks at a woman with desire, she has committed adultery in his heart. So, if your right eye causes you to sin,
tear it out and throw it away, because it is better to lose one thy members should perish, rather than the whole body be thrown into hell.
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut them off,
It is better to lose one thy members should perish, rather than whole body go into hell. It was said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, he must provide a certificate of divorce. But I tell you: 'Whoever divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, he made his wife commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman, he commits adultery. Ye have heard that it was spoken to our ancestors, 'Do not swear falsely,
but fulfill your vows in front of God. ' But I tell you, 'Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, nor by the earth, because the earth is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Similarly do not swear by your head, for you can not whiten or blacken a single hair. If yes, you shall say: Yes, if not, you shall say: No.
What is more than these cometh of evil. "
Such is the Word of God.
READING OR BRIEFS
Mat 5: 20-22a.27-28.33-34a.37
This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew:
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught His disciples said to him, If your righteousness is not more true than in the religious lives of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to our ancestors: Thou shalt not kill; whoever murders will be punished. But I tell you: 'Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be punished! 'You have heard it said,' Do not commit adultery! ' But I tell you: 'Whoever looks on a woman with desire, she has committed adultery in his heart.' You have heard that what was spoken to our ancestors,
'Do not swear falsely, but fulfill your vows in front of God.'
But I tell you, 'Do not swear at all!
If yes, you shall say: Yes, if not, you shall say: No. What is more than these cometh of evil. "
Such is the Word of God.
Devotional.
Word of God today is one of Jesus' Sermon on the hill that is about the business of sanctifying life (including marriage) radical with not commit adultery.
The teaching of Jesus that does not allow divorce, except for immorality (ay32), actually shows two fundamental things about life and marriage
First, that the marriage was in fact alive and sacred. Because it is not just any holy do divorce.
Second, that adultery is a sin. That is why Jesus asked that the solution had to be radical. That is, it should start from the heart and mind of a person.
We know that the heart and mind is the center of life. Therefore, Jesus insisted that his holy, holy lakunyapun behavior, if his mind toil, yet his actions well. Conversely, if heart and a dirty mind, so dirty anyway behavior. Because it's much more important to maintain the hearts and minds of the dirty things, rather than just prevent acts actions. Jesus emphasized that by highlighting the sexual sins that are often hidden, but undermined the moral person. Adultery occurs when a person is already thinking in the liver (ay28). When the heart is rotten, all members of the body will easily do bad deeds.
Jesus reveals that sin comes from the heart and mind, before it was revealed in action. For God, man can not be half-half fulfill his will .. Even to say, if there are members of the body are misleading, we should be beheaded. (Ay29). God wants our whole life is holy and righteous. Piety God wants not only looked outside, but that comes from the mind and the deepest depths of our hearts.
Devotional.
Let us get rid of things that can be dropped us to sin (sexual) that, like reading pornography, pornographic VCD, sites porn sites on the internet and so forth, because it can be a means for us to sin. Let us fill our hearts and minds, for example with spiritual reading that build our lives.
Important, too, celebrate the sacrament of penance to wash away our sins and sanctified life.
Prayer.
Yes God is benevolent, help us thy people for daring to rise into a new man, and release our sins. Amen.
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