Serving the Word: 26th October

MONDAY 26TH OCTOBER

Luke 13, 10-17:
“One Sabbath, Jesus taught in a synagogue. There was a woman who had been sick for eighteen years because of a spirit, and she was bent over and could not straighten up in any way. When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are free from your illness. He laid his hands on her, and she immediately stood upright. And she glorified God.

The synagogue and the Sabbath are the symbol of Jewish legalism and ritualism, which had become such a burden that it oppressed the person by making him bend over and looking down and not towards God and others.
With their intransigence, the Jewish laws had become an end in themselves.
Jesus gives them back their true meaning, because for Jesus people come first: “the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
Above any rule or any law is the rule and the law of love.
The human being, who is the image of God, comes first. That is why Jesus does not hesitate to heal on the Sabbath, a day sacred to a Jew and on which no work could be done.
He gives back to the bent-over woman her dignity and frees her from her bonds by placing her in the face of God and others.
May the supreme norm of your life also be the supreme norm of love.
Good day.

Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf

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