19 January
January 19th, 2010
Mark 2, 23-2
Lord, your mercy is my hope, my heart rejoices in your saving power.
I will sing to the Lord for his goodness to me.
One Sabbath Jesus and his disciples were going through the grain fields: as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”
The Pharisees objected to what they interpret as the disciples’ infringement of the law about doing work on the sabbath. Jesus said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God and eat the bread of the Presence which is not lawful for any but the priest to eat, and he gave some to his companions”.
The sabbatical observance takes the effect of subordinating observance to what is human. The sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath.
Prayer
Prayer :Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into this world.
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Just a Thought
Hope
John XXIII, referred to as the ‘caretaker Pope’, realising the widening gap between the Church and the world of his day, wrote: “An old world is disappearing. Another one is being formed, and with this I am trying to conceal some good seed or other that will have its springtime, even if it is somewhat delayed, and comes after I’m dead.”
Thomas Merton writes: “One must not give in to defeatism and despair: just as one must hope for life in a mortal illness which has been declared incurable.”
Even when dark clouds surround us, even when everything appears to be falling apart, we must continue to believe for a better future. Whatever the problem, there is a way forward.
So, my hope is in God alone because I believe in him; this is my faith. It is in him I put my faith and that faith, my belief in God’s love for me and all his creation, is the bedrock in which like an anchor, I put my hope. Together with that hope and faith is my love and fidelity in responding to that God in whom I live and move and have my being. In him I place my hope.
“Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:15-19).
