My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you on this Monday in the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. At Mass we will hear beautiful readings about getting our priorities straight and being authentic in the eyes of God. In the first reading from the Book of the prophet Isaiah, we are right at the beginning of his writings, of his warnings. In fact, we are reading from chapter one, verses ten to seventeen. This is the initial prophetic warning and admonition of the people of Judah, who politically and civilly back then were living prosperously. The Temple sacrifices were happening as scheduled every day. The marketplaces were busy. And so everything seemed to be going fine.