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Hey, Wazzup?

Photo of snail and Japanese holly speaking the Shalom Snail couplet about purity of heart, "Hey, Wazzup?" "A clean cup!" Purity is within.
“Hey, Wazzup?”
Luke 11:37-41 “in a snailshell”
Tuesday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Purity of heart involves cleansing the inner self through heartfelt almsgiving, not just performing superficial rituals.

Gospel

Luke 11:37-41 (ESV)

While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.… Read the rest

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God Made All Things Good

Peter’s vision of a sheet with animals, from Acts 10; illustration from Henry Davenport Northrop, “Treasures of the Bible,” published 1894.

5th Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday (Year I)

Genesis 1:20—2:4a; Mark 7:1-13

Then God said: Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: tame animals, crawling things, and every kind of wild animal.

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