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Wednesday of the 5th week in Ordinary Time Year C Mark 7:14-23 “It is not what you eat that defiles you” It is not what goes into our mouths that makes us ‘unclean’. The problem is not the stomach, but the heart. The food may not healthy but ut won’t make us unholy. What we eat may make us dirty but it won’t make us sinnners. Food has nothing to do with our holiness. If we watch our physical figure but never watch our spiritual fitness there is something wrong with our life. Defilement is moral and spiritual, not physical. The heart of the problem is the heart. Jesus said, if you want to be concerned about things that defile - look into your hearts for the cause of real impurity: adultery, fornication, murder, stealing, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. Moral cleanliness is more important than ritual purity. Our worship is meaningless if our practices is just for display. Our going to the church is just a show if on the other hand we are still living dishonest, unfaithful to each other, having illicit affairs, keep on swearing, lustful etc. Internalized our externals. Keep WATCH! Watch your: W-ords A- ctions T-houghts C-haracter H-earts Becareful with what seeds you allow to take root in the garden of your heart. Not all seeds bear good fruit. Fellow sinner, our heart needs the help of heaven. Let us cry out to Jesus right now and ask Him to make us clean in and out. Friends, we may not be clean but Jesus can purify us. Change my heart O God and make it like Yours. Amen. Blessings Fr. Jhack