Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 6, 1- 5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath,
his disciples were picking the heads of grain,
rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
Some Pharisees said,
“Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Have you not read what David did
when he and those who were with him were hungry?
How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering,
which only the priests could lawfully eat,
ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
Phariseeism
1. Going through. This refers to walking along the path of your life. Walk along just as Jesus does in today’s Gospel, even if it’s hard for you. In this you have two great enemies that can complicate your life. Both are within you: depression and suffocating anxiety. Suffocating anxiety paralyzes you, fills you with fear and leads you to fantasize, to imagine things that are not real and to start drawing conclusions, closing yourself in. That destroys your life and leads you to forget about yourself as a free being with a project of happiness. On the other hand, there’s depression, which is different from sadness, since it causes you to close yourself in a world of negativity. This also breaks your outlook on life. Both are extremes that can knock at your door.
2. It is not allowed. Because of what I was talking about just now, you can fall into a structured or fanatical religion, where you want to use God for your own structure, or your anxiety or your depression. Don’t shut yourself off to what’s new and learn to solve your needs by asking for help, knowing that everyone will always be in need of others. Jesus invites you to live life in an ordinary, natural and unstructured way. God wants to satisfy your hunger.
3. What can’t be done. We can fall into the temptation of being like policemen or customs officers, stating what everyone can or cannot do or say. We should not try to rule or control what those around us are doing all the time. Being God’s child involves walking in freedom and knowing oneself, accepting one’s limitations and needs. This is called maturity. It’s vital to understand how far you can go and how far you can’t, what you can do and what you can’t. Just being yourself and accepting God’s path for you is living in freedom and maturity.
Never forget that something good is on the way!
God bless you and be with you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
