Even better was the one for last year on August 22. (MT 23). He was condemning the Pharisees with their focus on the moral law and forms of worhsip. They were the Trads of his day. Modernists love this Gospel and its condemnation of the holier than art thou religious caste of the day. The modern equivalent is the Roman Curia!

August 21 is in honor of not my favorite Saint (given his network of informants and his opposition to modern scriptural research and natural law reason). It starts with an OT reading about Baalists, who essentially sacrificed their children so that they could have economic prosperity, which is what women who face abortion often contend with. Sadly, the Church is not strong enough in suggesting the practical measure of a $1000 per month per child tax cut.