Jill Bevilacqua looks at this Sunday’s Gospel reading in her programme, "There’s
more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye” . Listen:
Gospel Mt
7:21-27 Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in
heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in
your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds
in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart
from me, you evildoers.’ “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts
on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell,
the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse;
it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but
does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain
fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed
and was completely ruined.”