DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Sabbath Laws” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus asked the Pharisees, “Is it against the Law to cure someone on the Sabbath?” The Pharisees’ firm grip on the Sabbath Laws; without any compassion for the sick and suffering, cannot be according to God’s Merciful and Compassionate Love. Ponder on, “Do we obey God’s Laws superficially and blindly?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 14:1-6
On a Sabbath day Jesus had gone to share a meal in the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely. Now there in front of him was a man with dropsy, and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees with the words, ‘Is it against the law to cure someone on the Sabbath, or not?’ But they remained silent, so he took the man and cured him and sent him away.
Then he said to them, ‘Which of you here, if his son falls into a well, or his ox, will not pull him out on a Sabbath day without any hesitation?’ And to this they could find no answer.