The first reading at Mass today is from the prophet Amos.
Amos lived between 783 and 743. It was a period of prosperity in the Northern Kingdom but it was also a time when the wealthy exploited the poor.
A quote from the Jerusalem Bible: "Fine liturgical show disguised the lack of sound religion."
Amos was surely a man of our time.
And guess what he was expelled from Israel.
Among the things he condemned was the deceitful consolation of insincere ceremonial.
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