TUESDAY 19TH JANUARY 2021
Mark 2, 23-28:
“The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.”
In Jesus’ time the Jewish rules and laws had become so strict that they suffocated the true life of humanity.
The norm was fulfilled by the norm without realizing that the spirit of every law must be the defence of the dignity of the human person.
The precept of Sabbath-keeping had come to such an extreme that even to save a man’s life on the Sabbath was a transgression of the law.
Jesus teaches us the value of every human person, whoever he may be, whatever colour he may be, whatever age he may be, and whatever race he may be.
We all have our own little rules that sometimes prevent us from giving ourselves totally to others and from having a positive relationship with them.
Personal rules that make us judge others, that prevent us from leaving our pleasant tranquillity, that prevent us from generous and disinterested service to our brother or sister, and, in short, rules that make us intransigent and unsympathetic to others.
Once again, learn from Jesus today. Ask him for a compassionate and merciful heart like his, so that in it is, above all, your brother and sister, and not incomprehension and intransigence.
Good day.
Antonio Sanjuán Marín, cmf
