22nd Week in Ordinary Time

1st Reading: Col 1:21–23
Gospel: Lk 6:1–5
One Sabbath, Jesus was going through the corn fields and his disciples began to pick heads of grain crushing them in their hands for food. Some of the Pharisees asked them, “Why do you do what is forbidden on the sabbath?” Then Jesus spoke, “Have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry? He entered the house of God, took and ate the bread of the offering and even gave some to his men, though only priests are allowed to eat that bread.” And Jesus added, “The Son of Man is Lord and rules over the sabbath.”

Commentary
Irreconcilable differences: this is a phrase we’ve all heard. It is generally used in our society as a ground for divorce. Irreconcilable differences are a huge problem in our world today. We live in a world in which people feel alienated. Of course, there are many reasons for this alienation. We are all familiar with the common ones—race, education, money, status, and religion. Our world has a sad history of one group looking down upon another group because of issues like these.
There are those who may feel justified in their hostility toward others because of some wrong suffered. They may feel justified in hostile attitudes and hostile actions because they have been done wrong. As a result, we see an increasing hostility in our world. Our holiness is the purpose of reconciliation. God wants to present us to Himself as holy people. We are to be holy in his sight. This speaks of the purpose of God in reconciliation. As a part of this process, God is changing us from the inside out. Not only did Christ’s death reconcile us to God, it also works in us to change us into beautiful people in love with God!

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