Friends, as Americans, we have a very ambiguous relationship to law. On the one hand, we are a nation of independently minded people; we don’t like the law imposing itself on us. At the same time—let’s face it—we are a hyper-litigious society. We see the same ambiguity about law—both its beauty and its shadow side—in our three readings today.

Mass Readings Reading 1 — Dt 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm — Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
Reading 2 — Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27
Gospel — Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Conversion and Life in the Eucharist:    • Conversion and Life in the Eucharist  
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