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Theo Tigno•
1/19/2010 9:55 pm
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Wednesday, January 20th 2010 |
Mark 3:1-6
Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They watched Jesus closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. He said to the man with the withered hand, "Come up here before us." Then he said to the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?" But they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for the mother-in-law of a friend of mine who is in stage 4 cancer.
Today's reflection comes from Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan:
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Free time is quite important in today's society, but its importance derives from the fact that it is free for an encounter with God and others and that it can be sacred time and, therefore, truly free. We are often crippled by conventions which contemporary consumer society has imposed upon us, and we must now manifest the freedom to reach out and be human: to encounter God and our brothers and sisters. This involves the day of rest, the day when, though we do not work, we do not waste time, either, but ar e able to build ourselves up in freedom, particularly by opening ourselves to the infinite horizon of God and dealing with the concrete needs of our brothers and sisters on earth. We must recover the deep meaning of the sacredness of time.
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Take care and God Bless!
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