READING
reading the first book of Samuel 21, 2-6a.7ab
In those days. David went to Nob to the priest Achimelech. Achimelech, trembling, went to meet David and said, 'Why are you alone and no one with you? ". David answered the priest Achimelech: "The king has ordered me and told me:" Nobody knows anything about this thing for which I send you and which I have charged you. " In my youth I made an appointment to such a place. But now if you have at hand five loaves, give it to me, or else you can find. " The priest answered David: "I have no common bread at hand, I only sacred bread for your young, if you are at least abstained from women." David answered the priest, "Of course! Women have abstained on the other yesterday. " The priest gave him holy bread, because there was no other bread than that offer, withdrew from the presence of the Lord.
PSALM
Ps 42 (43)
® Your truth, Lord, light my path.
Vindicate me, O God,
plead my cause against ruthless people;
deliver wicked and perverted man. ®
send out your light and your truth to guide me whether
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lead me to your holy mountain, to your home. ®
I'll come to the altar of God,
to God, my joyful exultation.
to you sing on the lyre, O God, my God. ®
Why are you cast down, O my soul, why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God: for I shall again praise him,
him, my Savior and my God ®
EPISTLE
Hebrews 4: 14-16
Brothers, since we have a high priest large, which is passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession of faith. We have not a high priest who is unable to take part in our weaknesses: he himself was tested in all things like us except sin. Draw Close then with confidence to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace to help in time so appropriate.
GOSPEL
Reading of the Gospel according to Matthew 12, 9b-21
at that time. The Lord Jesus went into the synagogue, and behold a man who had a deformed hand. To accuse him, the Pharisees asked Jesus, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?". And he answered, "Who among you, having a sheep and that, on the Sabbath, he falls into a ditch, not grab and lift it out? Now, a man worth more than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful on the sabbath to do good. " He said the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out and it was restored as sound as the other. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel against him to destroy him. But Jesus, having heard, went out of there. Many followed him, and he healed them all and ordered them not to divulge, because it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; / my beloved, in whom I place the my satisfaction. / I will put my spirit upon him / and will announce justice to the nations. / Do not cry no contest / or you will hear his voice in the squares. / Do not break a bruised reed, / do not turn off a pale flame, / until he has made the triumph of justice, / in his name the nations will hope. "
When the well is subject to their beliefs - conveniences
The gospel in brief consists of two scenes: the first is the healing of a man in the highly conflictual. The second presents the style of the mission of Jesus, marked by meekness and humility.
1) A person is worth far more than a sheep!
The first verses of the Gospel put an emphasis on reaction of Jesus in front of the pettiness of a religious attitude that places the individual above the law just to keep their beliefs - conveniences: "Now a man is more than a sheep! So it is lawful on the sabbath to do good", ie live charity even at the expense of some external law! "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mk 2:27). In a similar episode Jesus said: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice" (Mt 12:7).
E 'since the days of the prophets that the true heart of worship pleasing to God is charity: "It' s probably like this the fast that I desire, .. like a reed bending his head, sackcloth and ashes .. It is not rather this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds unfair .., to share your bread with the hungry, house the homeless poor .. "(Is 58.5-7). A significant indication Evangelist John, who in place of the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, put the washing of feet, and invited to do so in memory of him and in the sacramental act of charity. How much life Christian worship and life stands out even today, prayer and charity. Formalisms and empty practices that do not please God without speaking of those who - like the Pharisees this - make a rearguard battle for liturgical formalisms!
But even outside the strictly religious context, it appears as though Today a dog is worth more than a man. We all remember the brutal murder of taxi driver in Milan. Beyond this major piece of news is spreading a utilitarian mentality and schizophrenic man who says that can be used for experimental purposes, may be terminated in the freezers and abandoned to a destiny of death, while all this trouble to make a animal.
To save the animal rights demanding a change in the methodology and scientific objectives, but if you ask this for human life in its early stages we pass backward. So goes the world. But it must be bad!
2) Do not turn off a pale flame
Commenting on healing done with tenacity in the face of Jesus to the Pharisees intolerant evangelist opens the discourse of mercy and patience of God that Jesus came to translate his gestures filled with compassion. Discretion above all, respect the rhythms of each journey of faith, patience that knows how to wait for the conversion, even those making the small steps of good housing in every man, without discouraging or perhaps levels off very early and non-standard by the diverse membership community.
That community is the perfect temptation that is reflected already in the gospel, when Jesus refers to the coexistence of good wheat and the weeds. "Shall we go and pick it up? No, he said, because that does not happen, gathering the weeds you root up the wheat with it" (Mt 13.28-29). Let us leave to God the proceedings, and we try to have the tolerance that has the heart of God: "Be merciful as your Father is merciful" (Lk 6:36). Up to the width of the heart of God the Father who gives always free to everyone: "He makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust" (Mt 5,45).
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