+ Our readings today are direct and instructive. Jesus cures a woman on the sabbath and is
hypocritically criticized for it, by those who ought to have been the ones who
not only understood what he was doing, but actually encouraging him to do it.
And so, since they were lost in their own ignorance and lack of compassion and
charity, they sought only to berate Jesus – for doing what was right and good –
on a sabbath.
Any day is a good day to cure,
heal, restore, renew, regenerate and reconcile. For example, today is such a
day!
In the first reading the topic
of hypocrisy is also addressed: St. Paul tells the Romans that if they are now
baptized, spiritual beings – with Christ living an abiding, interior Presence
within them – then they ought to stop living like the pagans – going after
satisfying the cravings of the flesh, like it was a sport – and to actually
live spiritually-based lives. Or they are hypocrites – and they have no right
to call God Abba, Father! – they have no right to expect his help or his aid in
times of trouble.
May we divorce ourselves from
hypocrisy more completely today and actually live the faith, and walk and talk
the way – the way we ought to live ourselves and model for others to do the
same.
God
is a God who saves – yet he can only save those who are willing to
be saved!
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