Come and join us either in person or on the livestream for our Parish Mass. Our Gospel reading reminds us that obsessing about what we eat is no guarantee of our purity of heart. The closely related incident of the Canaanite woman begging Jesus to heal her daughter gives him the opportunity to demonstrate to the disciples that someone from a tribe considered unfit to associate with the Jews (the Canaanites were a pre-Israelite indigenous population living in the Promised Land, then conquered by the tribes of Israel under Joshua's leadership), was just as worthy to receive Jesus' healing as they were.