30th Week in Ordinary Time : Monday 27th October 2025

Jesus confronts a mindset that values rules over healing. The idea that one must wait to be healed because it is the Sabbath reveals a tragic distortion of God’s law. “Come and be healed—just not today.” But Jesus, moved by compassion, refuses to delay love. He healed the woman crippled for eighteen years. He reminds us that mercy is never out of season.

Jesus took the occasion to teach and change the mindset of the people. The Sabbath was meant to restore life, not restrict it. When laws become barriers to compassion, they lose their soul. Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, teaches us that human dignity must always come first. Rest is sacred—but so is the act of lifting another from suffering. Jesus’ heart is always open, always reaching to the downtrodden.

St Paul, in Ephesians, urges us to “put on the armor of God.” This is not a call to rigidity, but to readiness. We are not called to be mechanical enforcers of the law or Church precepts, but living witnesses of grace. The armour we wear is not cold steel—it is truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and the Word of God. It is the strength to stand firm in love and in truth, even when the world resists it.

Jesus invites us be vigilant not in judgment, but in mercy. And let Sabbath be a space where healing happens, where love is never postponed, and where Christ is truly Lord.

PRAYER Lord, make us choose compassion over convenience in witnessing.