DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Rigid Laws” – Heartlessness of Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus was furious at the Jews who imposed the “Sabbath Laws” with rigidity and heartlessness; and caused great suffering to the people. Ponder on, “Jesus’ Compassionate Love, Heals the body and the soul. Do we relate to people’s needs with compassion like Jesus or are we ‘rigid and heartless’?
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Mark 3:7-12
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judaea, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea and Transjordan and the region of Tyre and Sidon, great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him.
And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, to keep him from being crushed. For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, would fall down before him and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!’ But he warned them strongly not to make him known.