WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.900 in a year. Today's reading is from the Gospel 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:12.080 of Matthew, Chapter 15, and the Gospel of Mark, 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:17.660 Chapters 7 and 8. Matthew, Chapter 15. Then the 00:00:17.660 --> 00:00:20.100 scribes and Pharisees, who were from Jerusalem, 00:00:20.379 --> 00:00:23.019 came to Jesus, saying, Why do your disciples 00:00:23.019 --> 00:00:25.820 transgress the tradition of the elders? For they 00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:27.859 do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.929 He answered and said to them, Why do you also 00:00:30.929 --> 00:00:33.450 transgress the commandment of God because of 00:00:33.450 --> 00:00:36.409 your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honor 00:00:36.409 --> 00:00:39.250 your father and your mother, and he who curses 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:42.250 father or mother, let him be put to death. But 00:00:42.250 --> 00:00:44.789 you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, 00:00:44.929 --> 00:00:47.509 Whatever profit you might have received from 00:00:47.509 --> 00:00:50.950 me is a gift to God, then he need not honor his 00:00:50.950 --> 00:00:53.909 father or mother. Thus you have made the commandment 00:00:53.909 --> 00:00:57.989 of God of no effect by your tradition. Hypocrites, 00:00:57.989 --> 00:01:00.810 well, did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, 00:01:01.570 --> 00:01:03.810 These people draw near to me with their mouth 00:01:03.810 --> 00:01:06.370 and honor me with their lips, but their heart 00:01:06.370 --> 00:01:09.170 is far from me, and in vain they worship me, 00:01:09.329 --> 00:01:12.109 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. 00:01:12.709 --> 00:01:14.909 When he had called the multitude to himself, 00:01:15.170 --> 00:01:18.590 he said to them, Hear and understand. Not what 00:01:18.590 --> 00:01:22.010 goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:25.730 out of the mouth, this defiles a man. Then his 00:01:25.730 --> 00:01:28.650 disciples came and said to him, Do you know that 00:01:28.650 --> 00:01:31.209 the Pharisees were offended when they heard this 00:01:31.209 --> 00:01:34.590 saying? But he answered and said, Every plant 00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:37.530 which my heavenly Father has not planted will 00:01:37.530 --> 00:01:41.329 be uprooted. Let them alone. They are blind leaders 00:01:41.329 --> 00:01:44.090 of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, 00:01:44.329 --> 00:01:47.590 both will fall into a ditch. Then Peter answered 00:01:47.590 --> 00:01:49.969 and said to him, Explain this parable to us. 00:01:50.170 --> 00:01:53.670 So Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding? 00:01:54.269 --> 00:01:57.069 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters 00:01:57.069 --> 00:01:59.969 the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 00:02:00.329 --> 00:02:03.209 But those things which proceed out of the mouth 00:02:03.209 --> 00:02:06.430 come from the heart, and they defile a man. For 00:02:06.430 --> 00:02:09.030 out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, 00:02:09.349 --> 00:02:12.830 adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, 00:02:13.129 --> 00:02:16.689 blasphemies. These are the things which defile 00:02:16.689 --> 00:02:19.830 a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:22.939 defile a man. Then Jesus went out from there 00:02:22.939 --> 00:02:25.340 and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 00:02:25.460 --> 00:02:28.199 And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:30.819 region and cried out to him, saying, Have mercy 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:34.199 on me, O Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.539 demon -possessed. But he answered her not a word. 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.020 And his disciples came and urged him, saying, 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.620 Send her away, for she cries out after us. But 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:45.939 he answered and said, I was not sent except to 00:02:45.939 --> 00:02:48.520 the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then she 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.069 came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, Help me. 00:02:51.389 --> 00:02:54.289 But he answered and said, It is not good to take 00:02:54.289 --> 00:02:56.210 the children's bread and throw it to the little 00:02:56.210 --> 00:03:00.490 dogs. And she said, Yes, Lord, yet even the little 00:03:00.490 --> 00:03:03.949 dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's 00:03:03.949 --> 00:03:06.969 table. Then Jesus answered and said to her, O 00:03:06.969 --> 00:03:09.949 woman, great is your faith. Let it be to you 00:03:09.949 --> 00:03:12.969 as you desire. And her daughter was healed from 00:03:12.969 --> 00:03:16.849 that very hour. Jesus departed from there, skirted 00:03:16.849 --> 00:03:19.370 the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain 00:03:19.370 --> 00:03:21.969 and sat down there. Then great multitudes came 00:03:21.969 --> 00:03:25.870 to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, 00:03:26.210 --> 00:03:29.110 maimed, and many others. And they laid them down 00:03:29.110 --> 00:03:32.310 at Jesus' feet, and he healed them. So the multitude 00:03:32.310 --> 00:03:34.889 marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the 00:03:34.889 --> 00:03:37.590 maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the 00:03:37.590 --> 00:03:40.949 blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. 00:03:41.490 --> 00:03:44.580 Now Jesus called his disciples to himself. And 00:03:44.580 --> 00:03:47.360 said, I have compassion on the multitude, because 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.900 they have now continued with me three days and 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:52.919 have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.360 them away hungry, lest they faint on the way. 00:03:55.659 --> 00:03:58.240 Then his disciples said to him, Where could we 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.020 get enough bread in the wilderness to fill such 00:04:01.020 --> 00:04:04.020 a great multitude? Jesus said to them, How many 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:07.099 loaves do you have? And they said, Seven and 00:04:07.099 --> 00:04:09.639 a few little fish. So he commanded the multitude 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.780 to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:15.500 loaves and the fish and gave thanks, broke them 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:18.279 and gave them to his disciples. And the disciples 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.540 gave to the multitude. So they all ate and were 00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:24.740 filled. And they took up seven large baskets 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:28.160 full of the fragments that were left. Now those 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.579 who ate were four thousand men besides women 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:32.819 and children. And he sent away the multitude, 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.660 got into the boat and came to the region of Magdala. 00:05:03.589 --> 00:05:04.250 Mark chapter 7 When they come from the marketplace, 00:05:04.569 --> 00:05:07.490 they do not eat unless they wash. And there are 00:05:07.490 --> 00:05:09.970 many other things which they have received and 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:13.209 hold, like the washing of cups, pitchers, copper 00:05:13.209 --> 00:05:16.029 vessels, and couches. Then the Pharisees and 00:05:16.029 --> 00:05:26.110 scribes asked him, He answered and said to them, 00:05:30.670 --> 00:05:33.689 This people honors me with their lips, but their 00:05:33.689 --> 00:05:36.470 heart is far from me, and in vain they worship 00:05:36.470 --> 00:05:39.449 me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of 00:05:39.449 --> 00:05:42.189 men. For laying aside the commandment of God, 00:05:42.310 --> 00:05:45.050 you hold the tradition of men, the washing of 00:05:45.050 --> 00:05:47.529 pitchers and cups, and many other such things 00:05:47.529 --> 00:05:51.769 you do. He said to them, All too well you reject 00:05:51.769 --> 00:05:54.550 the commandment of God, that you may keep your 00:05:54.550 --> 00:05:57.720 tradition. For Moses said, Honor your father 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.579 and your mother, and he who curses father or 00:06:00.579 --> 00:06:03.519 mother, let him be put to death. But you say, 00:06:03.620 --> 00:06:06.300 if a man says to his father or mother, whatever 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:09.639 profit you might have received from me is qurban, 00:06:09.779 --> 00:06:13.779 that is, a gift to God, then you no longer let 00:06:13.779 --> 00:06:16.220 him do anything for his father or his mother, 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.500 making the word of God of no effect through your 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:22.660 tradition which you have handed down, and many 00:06:22.660 --> 00:06:25.920 such things you do. When he had called all the 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.680 multitude to himself, he said to them, Hear me, 00:06:28.779 --> 00:06:31.959 everyone, and understand. There is nothing that 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.439 enters a man from outside which can defile him, 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:39.019 but the things which come out of him. Those are 00:06:39.019 --> 00:06:42.040 the things that defile a man. If anyone has ears 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.459 to hear, let him hear. When he had entered the 00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:48.079 house away from the crowd, his disciples asked 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.439 him concerning the parable. So he said to them, 00:06:50.579 --> 00:06:53.569 Are you thus without understanding also? do you 00:06:53.569 --> 00:06:56.389 not perceive that whatever enters a man from 00:06:56.389 --> 00:06:59.269 outside cannot defile him because it does not 00:06:59.269 --> 00:07:02.550 enter his heart but his stomach and is eliminated 00:07:02.550 --> 00:07:06.889 thus purifying all foods and he said what comes 00:07:06.889 --> 00:07:10.709 out of a man that defiles a man for from within 00:07:10.709 --> 00:07:13.709 out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts 00:07:13.709 --> 00:07:18.110 adulteries fornications murders thefts covetousness 00:07:18.110 --> 00:07:23.139 wickedness deceit lewdness and evil eye Blasphemy, 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.860 pride, foolishness, all these evil things come 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:30.399 from within and defile a man. From there he arose 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.139 and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon, and 00:07:33.139 --> 00:07:35.439 he entered the house and wanted no one to know 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.899 it, but he could not be hidden. For a woman whose 00:07:38.899 --> 00:07:41.540 young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:44.560 him, and she came and fell at his feet. The woman 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.040 was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.839 kept asking him to cast the demon out of her 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.889 daughter. But Jesus said to her, Let the children 00:07:53.889 --> 00:07:56.629 be filled first, for it is not good to take the 00:07:56.629 --> 00:07:59.470 children's bread and throw it to the little dogs. 00:07:59.790 --> 00:08:02.310 And she answered and said to him, Yes, Lord, 00:08:02.529 --> 00:08:05.850 yet even the little dogs under the table eat 00:08:05.850 --> 00:08:08.610 from the children's crumbs. Then he said to her, 00:08:08.670 --> 00:08:11.949 For this saying, Go your way, the demon has gone 00:08:11.949 --> 00:08:14.370 out of your daughter. And when she had come to 00:08:14.370 --> 00:08:17.069 her house, she found the demon gone out and her 00:08:17.069 --> 00:08:20.769 daughter lying on the bed. Again, departing from 00:08:20.769 --> 00:08:23.410 the region of Tyre and Sidon, he came through 00:08:23.410 --> 00:08:26.149 the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea 00:08:26.149 --> 00:08:28.910 of Galilee. Then they brought to him one who 00:08:28.910 --> 00:08:31.709 was deaf and had an impediment in his speech, 00:08:31.870 --> 00:08:34.809 and they begged him to put his hand on him. And 00:08:34.809 --> 00:08:37.529 he took him aside from the multitude and put 00:08:37.529 --> 00:08:40.669 his fingers in his ears, and he spat and touched 00:08:40.669 --> 00:08:43.830 his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed 00:08:43.830 --> 00:08:47.289 and said to him, Effata, that is, be opened. 00:08:47.900 --> 00:08:50.960 Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.700 of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plainly. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.019 Then he commanded them that they should tell 00:08:56.019 --> 00:08:58.919 no one. But the more he commanded them, the more 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:02.259 widely they proclaimed it. And they were astonished 00:09:02.259 --> 00:09:04.919 beyond measure, saying, He has done all things 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.200 well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:15.360 mute to speak. Chapter 8 In those days the multitude 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.620 being very great and having nothing to eat. Jesus 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:20.860 called his disciples to him and said to them, 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.820 I have compassion on the multitude, because they 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:26.700 have now continued with me three days and have 00:09:26.700 --> 00:09:29.580 nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry 00:09:29.580 --> 00:09:32.100 to their own houses, they will faint on the way, 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.100 for some of them have come from afar. Then his 00:09:35.100 --> 00:09:38.000 disciples answered him, How can one satisfy these 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.200 people with bread here in the wilderness? He 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.679 asked them, How many loaves do you have? And 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.379 they said, Seven. So he commanded the multitude 00:09:46.379 --> 00:09:49.000 to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.940 loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them 00:09:51.940 --> 00:09:54.379 to his disciples to set before them, and they 00:09:54.379 --> 00:09:57.559 set them before the multitude. They also had 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.700 a few small fish, and having blessed them, he 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:03.860 said to set them also before them. So they ate 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:06.539 and were filled, and they took up seven large 00:10:06.539 --> 00:10:09.539 baskets of leftover fragments. Now those who 00:10:09.539 --> 00:10:12.559 had eaten were about four thousand, and he sent 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.120 them away. Immediately he got into the boat with 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.240 his disciples and came to the region of Dalmanuta. 00:10:19.059 --> 00:10:21.500 Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:24.120 with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, 00:10:24.299 --> 00:10:27.740 testing him. But he sighed deeply in his spirit 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:30.940 and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? 00:10:31.539 --> 00:10:34.080 Assuredly I say to you, no sign shall be given 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.179 to this generation. And he left them, and getting 00:10:37.179 --> 00:10:39.659 into the boat again, departed to the other side. 00:10:40.100 --> 00:10:43.039 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.419 and they did not have more than one loaf with 00:10:46.419 --> 00:10:49.200 them in the boat. Then he charged them, saying, 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.899 Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees 00:10:52.899 --> 00:10:55.820 and the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:58.299 themselves, saying, It is because we have no 00:10:58.299 --> 00:11:01.000 bread. But Jesus, being aware of it, said to 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.440 them, Why do you reason because you have no bread? 00:11:03.779 --> 00:11:07.080 Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.240 heart still hardened? Having eyes do you not 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.320 see, and having ears do you not hear? And do 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.019 you not remember? When I broke the five loaves 00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:18.700 for the five thousand, how many baskets full 00:11:18.700 --> 00:11:21.539 of fragments did you take up? They said to him, 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.559 Twelve. Also when I broke the seven for the four 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.480 thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.720 did you take up? And they said, Seven. So he 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.379 said to them, How is it you do not understand? 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:37.059 Then he came to Bethsaida, and they brought a 00:11:37.059 --> 00:11:39.399 blind man to him and begged him to touch him. 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:42.659 So he took the blind man by the hand and led 00:11:42.659 --> 00:11:45.600 him out of the town. And when he had spit on 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.960 his eyes and put his hands on him, he asked him 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.799 if he saw anything. And he looked up and said, 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.100 I see men like trees walking. Then he put his 00:11:55.100 --> 00:11:57.759 hands on his eyes again and made him look up. 00:11:58.110 --> 00:12:00.570 and he was restored and saw everyone clearly. 00:12:01.070 --> 00:12:03.690 Then he sent them away to his house, saying, 00:12:03.990 --> 00:12:07.269 Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in 00:12:07.269 --> 00:12:10.590 the town. Now Jesus and his disciples went out 00:12:10.590 --> 00:12:13.509 of the towns of Caesarea Philippi, and on the 00:12:13.509 --> 00:12:15.649 road he asked his disciples, saying to them, 00:12:15.789 --> 00:12:19.649 Who do men say that I am? So they answered, John 00:12:19.649 --> 00:12:22.610 the Baptist, but some say Elijah, and others 00:12:22.610 --> 00:12:25.389 one of the prophets. He said to them, But who 00:12:25.389 --> 00:12:28.389 do you say that I am? Peter answered and said 00:12:28.389 --> 00:12:31.250 to him, You are the Christ. Then he strictly 00:12:31.250 --> 00:12:33.990 warned them that they should tell no one about 00:12:33.990 --> 00:12:36.789 him. And he began to teach them that the Son 00:12:36.789 --> 00:12:39.509 of Man must suffer many things and be rejected 00:12:39.509 --> 00:12:42.730 by the elders and chief priests and scribes and 00:12:42.730 --> 00:12:46.509 be killed and after three days rise again. He 00:12:46.509 --> 00:12:49.769 spoke this word openly. Then Peter took him aside 00:12:49.769 --> 00:12:52.610 and began to rebuke him. But when he had turned 00:12:52.610 --> 00:12:55.759 around and looked at his disciples, He rebuked 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.039 Peter, saying, Get behind me, Satan, for you 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:01.639 are not mindful of the things of God, but the 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:03.759 things of men. When he had called the people 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.600 to himself, with his disciples also, he said 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.039 to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.000 him deny himself and take up his cross and follow 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.399 me. For whoever desires to save his life will 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.139 lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake 00:13:20.139 --> 00:13:23.480 and the Gospels will save it. For what will it 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.480 profit a man if he gains the whole world and 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.059 loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:33.200 exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.580 of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful 00:13:36.580 --> 00:13:40.299 generation, of him the Son of Man also will be 00:13:40.299 --> 00:13:43.120 ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:51.620 with the holy angels. I hope you enjoyed today's 00:13:51.620 --> 00:13:53.919 reading as much as I did and I look forward to 00:13:53.919 --> 00:13:55.860 seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our 00:13:55.860 --> 00:13:57.960 journey. God bless you and have a great day.