Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - The Healing Yoke

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 10-29-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 14:1-6

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Pharisees and other religious leaders look on with silent disdain as Jesus heals a man. He challenges them by asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?”

Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people, laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible, exulting in their own moral superiority. At the core of Jesus’ program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens, to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well. If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing, at the same time, to help them bear it.

When were you cured by Christ and how? What was it like to receive, through the Church, his healing touch? When did you feel ostracized, despised, unworthy—and how did Christ, through his Church, restore you to health and communion? Remember that moment and share it.

[MurphsLaw]

+++On a sabbath Jesus went to dine
at the home of one of the leading
Pharisees,
and the people there were observing
him carefully.
In front of him there was a man
suffering from dropsy.
Jesus spoke to the scholars of the
law and Pharisees in reply, asking,
“Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath
or not?”
But they kept silent; so he took the
man and,
after he had healed him, dismissed him.
Then he said to them
“Who among you, if your son or ox
falls into a cistern,
would not immediately pull him out
on the sabbath day?”
But they were unable to answer his
question.+++