16 Jan 2018
Jesus says, “The sabbath was made for man.” In other words, all that God prescribes, all that
our faith demands is supposed to be for our benefit. It’s supposed to help us flourish as human
beings, as children of God.
Now, the Pharisees were obsessed with the sabbath laws—we sort
of have the opposite of that today, it seems.
Today there can apathy towards what God puts out there as guidelines for
his people. Ideally, of course, we’d be
somewhere in the middle: not apathetic, but also not obsessed with the details
of what our faith demands.
Ideally, we’d be focused on the overarching purpose of it all—the
purpose being “life.” We’re disciples of
Jesus, we adhere to the Catholic faith because we want to know and experience
what really being alive is like. And so,
if our practice of the faith leaves us feeling…flat, then maybe our prayer
needs to be our alleluia verse rom today:
“May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes
of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call.” And that hope, of course, is to be fully and
genuinely alive—as God intends for us to be.
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