Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 12,1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
“See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to them, “Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”
Satiated in God
1. Going through. In life you have to face various experiences and must continue moving forward to identify what affects you. Because you can’t go on turning around in the same old things; life involves exploration, it’s a process of personal change and growth, being open to what is new, to what is different, moving away from old patterns to adopt new perspectives. That requires a change in mindset.
2. What is not allowed. When religion becomes legalism, all the beauty of religion itself is lost. When life and religion are reduced to what you can and can’t do, it’s sad because Jesus did not come to give decrees, He came to give life. When you stress obedience separately from faith, sometimes, over faith, you rely more on the code of Canon Law than on the Gospel. When you confuse faith with morals, everything starts to revolve around rituals, but without the experience of spirituality, and the beauty of Christian life is the search for Christ and having a relationship with him. Don’t equate religion solely with rules or instill fears about God in others. Avoid considering everything as sinful and everyone as sinners, except you.
3. Mercy. Life involves looking at others, knowing that we all have faults and choosing to help rather than judge brings peace. One of the things that we must also change, even those of us who are within the Church, is that when we get to know other people’s distress many times we set out to destroy them. We should stop exposing others’ struggles and empathize instead, understanding we too are vulnerable. Mercy means seeing others’ flaws with the awareness of our own.
Remember that something good is on the way!
God bless you and guard you, in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
