In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew, Jesus speaks to the importance of truth in our conversations as He lays down the criterion that his disciples must apply in this connection. It is based on re-establishing mutual trust, nobility and sincerity. Servant of God Dorothy Day writes that when she became a Catholic, it never occurred to her to question how much freedom she had or how much authority the Church had to limit that freedom. “I had reached the point where I want to obey. I was like the child in the New Yorker cartoon (I was nearly 30 years old) who said, ‘do I have to do what I want to do today?’ I was tired of following the devices and desires of my own heart, of doing what I wanted to do, what my desires told me I want to do, which always seem to lead me astray. Obedient to my conscience, I became a Catholic, was conditionally baptized and said, ‘I do believe,’ to the great and solemn and beautiful truths proposed to me. For the next five years no big problems came up of obedience. The church held up a tremendous ideal for the follower of Christ, and no matter how many times one failed, fell flat on one’s face, one might say, the church, holy mother Church, was there with her Sacraments of Penance and holy Eucharist to reassure and forgive and sustain and nourish one.”