Can we remember what our lives were like before entered into this wonderful relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord?
How difficult it was to find peace of mind? How we could hardly control our wanton desires or resist temptations. How we were trapped in guilt, melancholy even sorrow. How our soul longed to be free, free too from the drudgery of our lives!
Then how it all changed when we decided to come before Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. We came as we were, in our sinfulness, surrendering our lives to our Lord of lords, King of kings. Placing ourselves in His mercy and love, renouncing ourselves and committing to follow after Him by carrying our cross. We were set free! We entered into His life, death and resurrection by our baptism and rose to new life in Him!
Now as His disciples in communion with Him, we go out into the world setting others free; by facilitating encounters with Him through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Saint Peter Claver pray for us…
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First reading
Colossians 1:21-23 ·
God has reconciled you by Christ’s death in his mortal body
Not long ago, you were foreigners and enemies, in the way that you used to think and the evil things that you did; but now he has reconciled you, by his death and in that mortal body. Now you are able to appear before him holy, pure and blameless – as long as you persevere and stand firm on the solid base of the faith, never letting yourselves drift away from the hope promised by the Good News, which you have heard, which has been preached to the whole human race, and of which I, Paul, have become the servant.
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Gospel
Luke 6:1-5
The Son of Man is master of the sabbath
One sabbath Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day?’ Jesus answered them, ‘So you have not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry – how he went into the house of God, took the loaves of offering and ate them and gave them to his followers, loaves which only the priests are allowed to eat?’ And he said to them, ‘The Son of Man is master of the sabbath.’
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