Gospel: 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 the 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.”
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Reflection:
A disciplinarian father suddenly realized that his strictness with his
children was slowly creating a wall between him and his children. He carefully
thought on how he could banish the wall that he himself created. So he said
from now on I will not be strict anymore I would be more compassionate,
approachable and merciful.
After a week the wall that created a gap between the father and his
children had completely banished. From then on his children became more open to
him and it created an ideal father and children relationship.
Mercy, understanding and openness are always higher than rigidity and
strictness. Rigidity and strictness tears people apart it creates walls of
communication and it foments strangeness and separation. On the other hand
mercy, understanding and openness brings us closer, it breaks walls and it
heals wounds.
Let go therefore of your hatred, let go therefore of your pent up
emotions, let go and let the mercy of Jesus rule your heart. Let us always
desire to be merciful because Jesus himself is merciful. – Marino J.
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