2. 22nd DURING THE YEAR Cycle B Let’s listen "Tu Solus Sanctus" of the Requiem by Marcel Olm, wishing the holiness of heart

3. SECTION OF THE LOAVES OF BREAD (Mk 6:32 - 8:26) 1st part of Jewish tradition - 1st Jewish multiplication of the loaves (focused in No. 5 of the Torah), - Eat the BREAD of Jesus with a clean HEART (today) 2a Part of Gentile tradition - The Bread of Jesus is also for the Gentiles (Canaanite woman) -The deaf-mute UNDERSTANDS Him (next SUNDAY) -2nd Gentile multiplication of the loaves (focused on the Greek No. 7) The Bread of Jesus is intended to feed EVERYONE, and still have leftovers We resume the Gospel of Mark still focused on the EUCHARIST Bethsaida, where Jesus goes after the multiplication of the loaves (Mk 6:45)

4. According to tradition, Peter preached in Rome, while Mark picks it up in his Gospel (see: 1 Pet 5:13 & Col 4:10) Scholars believe that much of the Gospel of Mark was written in Rome, and today's Gospel, with explanations of what “the Jews” do, certifies it

5. Mk 7:18.14-15.21-23 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. Bethsaida where the apostles live the Gospel of today

6. In the same way that the complex Jewish laws, should oppose the simple rules of Jesus The entry in the Rome of the 1st century, with its imperial laws, should impress to the apostles Appian Way where Mark and the apostles entered Rome Rome where Mark writes the Gospel

7. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.

8. Imperial Rome Nor the customs of the Jews, nor those of the Romans, were in accordance with the Good News of Jesus The splendour of the ancient city, contrasted with the Gospel

9. And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?"

10. The Christianity they carried at the heart, did not remain in rituals, but in inner cleaning Vestal subjected to the laws of the cult to the gods Jesus said that what mattered was not the external purity, with all its so enslaving rules

11. And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "' This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

12. We all have this danger: “You decorate the temples, but you have Christ chained in prison” (St. John Chrysostom) Jews and the Romans were concerned only on the external worship; abandoning God's law, complying the worldly practice Pantheon dedicated to the gods (1st century BC)

13. And he called the people to him again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him,

14. Neither the successes or failures are important, the essential thing is not to let evil within us Nothing outside contaminated the person The Colosseum (29 BC) served over 500 years for games

15. but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

16. Remains of the “Domus Aurea” or 'Golden House' of Nero 1st century Rotating dining room for banquets Led to: «evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness….» The emperors ambition polluted the environment

17. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."

18. To eat the BREAD of Jesus we have the heart clean of criticism, envy and rivalries... And if, despite fighting, we fall, the Communion with the Good Jesus, will help us be converted The BREAD of Jesus calls for a radical cleaning Peter Mark

19. Jesus, “a clean heart create for us” (Psalm 51) and your Bread will be the food that belongs to us

20. Nuns of St. Benet de Montserrat www.benedictinescat.com/montserrat www.benedictinescat.com/montserrat Entrance to the city of Bethsaida (Galilee)