Gospel of February 10, 2023 with the comment of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the book of Gènesi
Jan 2,4b-9.15-17

In the day when the Lord God made the earth and the sky no field bush was on the earth, no field grass had sprung up, because the Lord God did not make it rain on the earth and there was no man working the soil, but a pool water gushed from the earth and irrigated all the soil.
Then the Lord God fashioned man with dust from the ground and blew a breath of life into his nostrils and man became a living being. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had fashioned. The Lord God made all sorts of trees pleasing to the eye and good to eat sprout from the ground, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. The Lord God gave this command to man: "You may eat from all the trees in the garden, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you must not eat, because, on the day you eat it, you will certainly die" .

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Mark
Mc 7,14-23

At that time, Jesus, calling the crowd again, said to them: «Listen to me all and understand well! There is nothing outside of man which, entering into him, can make him impure. But it is the things that come out of man that make him impure ».
When he entered a house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable. And he said to them: "So you are not capable of understanding?" Don't you understand that everything that enters man from the outside cannot make him impure, because it does not enter his heart but into his belly and goes into the sewer? ». Thus he made all food pure.
And he said: «What comes out of man is what makes man impure. In fact, from within, that is, from the hearts of men, evil intentions come out: impurity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
All these bad things come out from within and make man impure ”.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
“Temptation, where does it come from? How does it work within us? The apostle tells us that it does not come from God, but from our passions, from our interior weaknesses, from the wounds that original sin left in us: from there the temptations come from these passions. It is curious, temptation has three characteristics: it grows, infects and justifies itself. It grows: it begins with a calm air, and it grows… And if one does not stop it, it occupies everything ”. (Santa Marta 18 February 2014)