11 February 2025 - Tuesday of the 5th week in Ordinary Time
Homily
In the Gospel, Jesus reminds both the crowds who come to Him and the Pharisees and scribes that the purity that counts before God is not the ‘ritual purity’ with which ancient religions, including that of Israel, were concerned, and which they strove to achieve through rituals and cultic practices, but the purity of the heart.