Praise be almighty God our Father, for He hears our cries for mercy. And answers our prayers with mercy and love. He patiently waits for us to be ready like a Father who will not push His child till the child is ready to walk.
Do we extend that same mercy we pray so earnestly to our heavenly Father for, to our brethren? Do we let the faults blind us from seeing the person? Is our love conditional? Yet do we not want for ourselves unconditional love?
Lord teach me Your merciful ways, let Your love for me be the same love I give to my brethren. Amen
FIRST READING
Isaiah 38:1–6, 21–22, 7–8
GOSPEL
Matthew 12:1–8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to the them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”
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