Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Friday 1st. Week of Lent

 


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The Scribes and the Pharisees were the professionals.
The religious leaders.
No one prayed like them.
No one fasted like them.
And no one followed all the rules and regulations of the Faith like them.

Yet In spite of all that,
They were not going to get into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Because They thought their prayers and fasting made them better than everyone else.
They saw everyone else’s sins but not their own.

Unless our holiness SURPASSES that of the scribes and the Pharisees we too will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

So what are we to do if all of our prayers, and fasting and keeping of the commandments is not enough to get into Heaven?

Our prayers and fasting and keeping of the commandments
Do not make us better than everyone else.

rather they reminds us that we are sinners like everyone else
In need of God’s Mercy
And only with God’s Mercy,
Will we enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

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