The Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath

Heb 6,10-20; Ps 110; Mk 2,23-28
22 JANUARY
Jesus came to our earth to work human redemption. There is no true redemption of man, no real salvation, if man is not brought into his purest truth which is always from the very pure truth of his Creator and Lord. Jesus comes among us and brings with him the very pure light not only of the Commandments, which are the beginning of the knowledge of the truth of God and of man, but of the whole heart of the Father, manifested in its highest truth. First we listen to what Jesus says about the Law and the Prophets. Then we ask ourselves how the Sabbath Law has been fulfilled.

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven (Mt 5,17-19).

The Law on the Sabbath finds its violation in the greed, in the desire of possession, in the will of possession and in the thirst of money, which are all things that originate in the loss of true faith in God. Jesus puts in the hearts both the truth of the Father, the truth of things and the truth of man. If man leads himself to the truth of God, of things and of himself, never might he violate the Sabbath. Violation is from falsehood.

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be. “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil (Mt 6,19-34).

Jesus is the only one that knows the heart of the Father. For this he is the only one who can reveal the truth that the Father has placed in the Law of the Sabbath. All that is concupiscence, thirst, desire for the things of the world cannot be done. one can always live.

As he was passing through a field of grain on the Sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

All you need for life can be done. It must be done. There is no craving, no concupiscence and no thirst for possession in the disciples. There is only a great hunger.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, help us to never profane the truth of the Word of God.