1st book of Kings 8:22-23.27-30.
Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the
whole community of Israel, and stretching forth his hands toward heaven,
he said, "LORD, God of
Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep your covenant of
kindness with your servants who are faithful to you with their whole heart.
"Can it indeed be
that God dwells among men on earth? If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you, how
much less this temple which I have built!
Look kindly on the prayer and petition of your
servant, O LORD, my God, and listen to the cry of supplication which I, your servant, utter before
you this day.
May your eyes watch night and day over this temple, the place where you have
decreed you shall be honored; may you heed the prayer which I, your servant, offer in this place.
Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer in this
place. Listen from your heavenly dwelling and grant pardon.
Psalms 84(83):3.4.5.10.11.
My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart
and flesh cry out for the living God.
As the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest to
settle her young, My home is by your altars, LORD of hosts, my king and my God!
Happy are those
who dwell in your house! They never cease to praise you. Selah
O God, look kindly on our shield;
look upon the face of your anointed.
Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:1-13.
When the Pharisees with some scribes who had
come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their
meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
(For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not
eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders.
And on coming
from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things
that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles (and beds).)
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of
the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?"
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."
He went on to say, "How well you have set aside
the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and
your mother,' and 'Whoever curses father or mother shall die.'
Yet you say, 'If a person says to
father or mother, "Any support you might have had from me is qorban"' (meaning, dedicated to
God),
you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother.
You nullify the word of God
in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things."
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