22 January 2019, Vincent
THE SABBATH IS FOR MAN (Mark 2:23-28)
Jesus’ saying, ‘the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath’,
throws into confusion the accepted way of thinking of that time and of any
time. The world and its institutions are
to be set up ‘for man’ and not to buttress any particular ideology or interest
group. The Pharisees and their modern
equivalents keep a firm hold on their own privileged position and pay lip
service to the clear fact that the earth is the common and only home of all
people. And we are called by this
reading to look into our own conscience; what does it tell us about our
approach to ‘the Sabbath’? And, in
particular, are my relations with others influenced by a culture of personal
interest to the detriment of a more compassionate openness to their needs?
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