10.26.14

Lectio:Lk 13.10-17                           

Meditatio: "But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, ‘There are six days when work can be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the Sabbath’.” Lk 13.14 

Oratio: O God, You so much want compassion and not legalism to guide our actions.                                                          
I remember Jesus roundly criticized the religious leader of a synagogue for telling the people they should not seek to be cured on the Sabbath for he considered it work - but Jesus considered it love; and He wanted all to ignore legalism and to do what love requires. In prayer seek the grace to have a compassionate heart at all times.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditated  on the selected passage and hear what    
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "leader...indignant....cured...Sabbath”; how sad that the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law was the guiding principle for the religious leaders of Jesus’ days. And Jesus made his displeasure with the leader very clear, calling him a hypocrite. Seek the grace to be always guided in one’s acts by compassion for that is God’s ways and that is the way He wants us to be as His children.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 6.12-16