A meditation preached in the woods by Fr. Eric Nicolai at camp Caribou near Barry's Bay, Ontario.

Matt 23: 13-22: Jesus said: ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who shut up the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to.

And the one most demanding statement from our Lord, the most uncompromising , harsh, forceful, consequential, indomitable, is the truth is about hypocrisy.

It must be counteracted by unity of life.

Thumbnail: Screen grab from the movie, The Godfather.

Music: Michael Lee of Toronto.