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My Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. Forgiveness, mercy, and compassion are at the heart of true religion. Without these, all the rest is heartless and empty performance. In today’s Gospel Jesus’s disciples were passing through the field. And they began to pluck the ears of grain and eat. The Pharisees were skilful at pointing out deficiencies in others. Jesus comes fearlessly and immediately to the defence of his hungry disciples. Jesus told them ‘The Sabbath was made for humankind.’ Human need supersedes the ritual demands of the Sabbath.
Whenever blind authoritarianism confronts common sense, this word of Jesus holds us. It is not easy to apply, and the Pharisees thought it revolutionary. They had extended the two great commandments: Love God and love your neighbour, into 612 regulations.
The sabbath is for our good. The Pharisees followed the letter of the law. Jesus did not disobey the law rather he followed the Spirit of the law. By confronting the Pharisees Jesus asks us to be human first. only then we can be holy. He asks us to Be led by love and not by law. Because love is greater than the law. Being merciful towards others is more pleasing to God than being faithful to the law. Therefore St. Paul writing to Corinthians in his first letter chapter 13:3 says if I give away all I have, and I deliver my body to be burned but I have no love, I gain nothing.
St. Bede commenting on this incident where his disciples eat grains, he says to pluck the ears of corn means to snatch men away from the eager desire of earthly things. And to rub with the hands is… by examples of virtue to put away the fleshly desires from the purity of minds, To eat the grains is… when a man, cleansed from the filth of vice by the mouths of preachers, is incorporated among the members of the Church.
Dear friends let us understand this incident for our own spiritual growth, may the words of Jesus purify us, may we be cleansed of earthly desires, may we experience his love for us and lead a life of love and the spirit of law. Let us not point out others but look into ourselves how we are following the Lord. let we be the goodnews by showing true love to others.
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