Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark 2, 23-28
As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath,
his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him,
“Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did
when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest
and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat,
and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them,
“The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
Going through
1. Passing through. Life is like a journey filled with unexpected events; there’s no handbook that lays everything out. We may picture our lives going one way, but often, circumstances cause us to take a different direction. What matters isn’t what you encounter, but how you choose to deal with the challenges ahead. Our task is to face what comes our way and keep moving forward, making our own path rather than staying stuck.
2. Allowed. There will always be people who try to regulate your actions, telling you what is and isn’t “allowed,” even within the Catholic Church. Don’t let this unsettle you. Those who spend their time judging you clearly have little going on in their own lives, which is why they focus on yours. The real issue isn’t criticism or judgment; it’s when everything is reduced to questions of what is “permitted.”
3. The person. At the heart of Jesus’s message is the person. What matters to Jesus is the person, not just their deeds—I’d even say more than rituals or acts of devotion. Christ continually reminds us that what is truly important is the person and their growth.
Remember that something good is on the way!
God bless you and protect you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
