Lord of the Sabbath

Sisters and brothers in Christ, today is the Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church.

In the talk on "Stewardship" for CALLED TO BE ONE Marriage Class, we help couples understand that their time, talent, and treasure are all of them gifts from God. God sustains us in this world. God grants us different talents, not for our own selfish use, but for the common God. God gives us treasures or means to obtain those treasures to help our families and those in needs.

In those times that we forget that everything we have comes from our loving Father in heaven, let us be reminded of what Saint Paul wrote to the Corinthians in today's first reading: "What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?" Let us always remember this because it will help us to keep our pride and ego in check and strive to live life according to God's Great Commandments - to love God and to love our neighbors.

Most of all, when we remember that who we are and everything we have come from our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, then we cannot help of keep holy the sabbath, setting Sunday aside to give God praise and worth for His gifts of time, talent, and treasure to us.

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Gospel of the Day

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, took the bread of offering,
which only the priests could lawfully eat,
ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”