In the Gospel Reading today Jesus teaches us that if someone hits us on the right side of the face we should offer the other side as well.

In the Gospel Reading today Peter is walking to Capernaum. While on his way he encounters some tax collector who asked him, ‘does your Master pay the temple tax.’

A straightforward reading of today’s Gospel passage would lead us to believe that if we pray for something, we would receive that from God. “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, and knock and the door shall be open to you.” (Luke 11: 9-13)

Are you a hypocrite? As Christians, this is something we all think about; or, in fact, we might have been called a hypocrite by someone; or considered ourselves to be a hypocrite a few times in our life.

In the Gospel Reading today Jesus scolds the Pharisee, Sadducees and Scribes, the “spiritual elites” of his time, by saying they were not willing to repent, or rather change their ways, when John the Baptist came to them in righteousness; however the tax collectors and harlots were willing; therefore, they will enter into the Kingdom of God.