DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Living the Faith: In today’s Gospel, the Pharisees rebuked Jesus and His disciples for picking corn on the Sabbath which is forbidden by Jewish Law. Ponder on, “Do I have the eyes and heart of the faith of Jesus to see and sense God’s daily Presence in my life”? “Is my faith superficial, prejudiced and focused only on my self-centred needs?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 12:1-4, 6-8
Jesus took a walk through the cornfields one Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the Sabbath.’ But he said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry – how he went into the house of God and they ate the loaves of the offering although neither he nor his followers were permitted to eat them, but only the priests?
‘Now here, I tell you, is something greater than the Temple. And if you had understood the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless. For the Son of man is master of the Sabbath.’