14 March 2025 - Friday of the first week of Lent
Homily
Sometimes, if we read the Gospel superficially, we get the impression that Jesus is not very logical or coherent in his teaching. There are texts in the Gospel in which He preaches against the legalism of the Pharisees, saying that the Sabbath was made for human beings and not human beings for the Sabbath, and so on. But at other times, Jesus tells us things like what we have just heard: that if our righteousness does not surpass that of the Scribes and Pharisees, we will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The explanation for this discrepancy is certainly that Jesus operates according to a different type of wisdom and logic from our own.