We can all use discipline in our lives even in the worship of our Heavenly Father. We need to abide by His commandments and statutes given to us in Love. The problem arises when we take the love out from them, what then happens? We become rigid, calculative,cold and soon we deceive ourselves that our thoughts and discernment of them are still from God.
The heart of a disciple of Jesus lies in His cross. The ultimate sign of love, Christ gave up His life for us so that we may live. And so when we die to ourselves so that others may live, we bear our cross with Him.
Jesus my Lord, I am Your disciple. Give me the courage, strength and grace to persevere in the carrying of my cross; of which I gladly do so for the love of You. Amen.
FIRST READING
1 Corinthians 4:6b–15
GOSPEL
Luke 6:1–5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”
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