The Gospel for Saturday of the 22nd week in ordinary time is taken from Luke 6 through the 5th verse. While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a Sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some Pharisees said, why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? Jesus said to them in reply, have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God and took the bread of offering which only the priest could lawfully eat, ate it and shared it with his companions, and he said to them, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. Anyone who is focused on religion as a rigid obligation to follow every rule and every law should be threatened by this particular passage.

Because what he’s saying is that when you have the Spirit of God living in you, guiding you, you don’t need the law anymore. And the law can’t apply to everything that one encounters in this life but God in us. God’s Spirit can guide us with wisdom and direction and bring us to the place that God has called us to be. We need to trust in His Spirit more than rules and regulations. Please reflect for a few moments on the wisdom of these Gospels and then I will close with a prayer. Sa Foreign Closing Prayer Father, we have opened our heart to a new vision that you have brought into the world of who we are with you instead of who we are under your law.

Bless us in this transition. Help us achieve this goal. And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.