21 Jan 2020
Keep Holy the Sabbath
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For 21 January 2020, Tuesday of week 2 in Ordinary Time, based on Mark 2:23-28
One sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?†And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.†Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.â€
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Brigid Cannon, OP
22 January 2020 @ 2:28 am
Thank you, Sr. Beth for your clear and profound reflection on the gospel today for all God’s People.
I also appreciated your challenge to look within ourselves for signs of hypocrisy and mistaking
our own roles at times. May we always remember to Love God and our Neighbor.
Blessings on you and your preaching of the Good News,
Brigid, OP