Reading, March 2 -- Eighth Sunday of the Year C - 1 March 2025.

Reading: Sir. 27:4-7; Responsorial Psalm 92:1-2.12-13.14-15(R.1a); 1 Cor. 15:54-58 & Gospel Luke 6:39-45.

The first reading discloses that speech tests a man's integrity - It urges us to guard against praising people before they speak. In the second reading, St. Paul argues that death is swallowed up in victory as perishability takes on imperishability. The gospel recounts Jesus' teaching on the relationship between the heart and the mouth. Mindful of Jesus' caution against hypocrisy in which he stresses that a blind man cannot lead another blind man, today's liturgy challenges us to seek personal purity from the inside before we can reform others through our speech and act...