As a teenager, whenever I would backtalk my mother, she would say, “You need an attitude adjustment!” In today’s Gospel Reading, Jesus is saying something similar. Our Lord taught that all the rituals in the world will not make us godly if our minds and hearts are in the wrong place. One of the things that He uses as an example is what our readings translate as “blasphemy.” To His audience, this was a broad term for “abusive or scurrilous language”. It is an easy sin to commi