26 August 2025: Tuesday of the 21st week of Ordinary Time
1 Thess. 2:1-8; Matt. 23:23-26
Homily
Today's Gospel is a continuation of yesterday's ferial Mass. It is a long list of ‘curses’ from Jesus against the Pharisees. The authors of our liturgical lectionary probably thought that it would be a bit too heavy to read all these ‘curses’ at once, even though it would not have been that long. What Jesus reproached above all in the first part was the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees. In the text we have just read, He continues on the same theme, and in an even more explicit way. He mentions two more concrete forms of hypocrisy.