Holy Gospel according to Saint
Matthew XXIII, 27-32
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21
st Wednesday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said:
oe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres¹ of the prophets, and adorn² the monuments of the just,
and say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Douay-Rheims 1899