Clinging to human tradition?
From today’s Gospel reading for the Novus Ordo:
He responded,
“Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites,
as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
Saint Clement of Rome said about this passage:
So let us devote ourselves to those at peace in their devotion to God, and not to those who seek peace through hypocrisy. For he says in one place: "This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me." (Is 29:13) And again: "They blessed with their mouth but they cursed in their heart." (Ps 62:4) And again he says: "They flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues. Their heart was not steadfast toward him: they were not true to his covenant" [Letter to the Corinthians 14]
Another Clement, of Alexandria, said about this:
God considers our inward thoughts. Remember Lot’s sife. All she did was voluntarily to turn her head back toward worldly corruption. She was left a senseless mass, a pillar of salt. [Stromata 2]





























