Monday, January 18, 2010

January 18, 2010; Homily January 19, 2010.

Mark 3:23-28.

As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?" He said to them,, "Have you not read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priest could lawfully eat and shared it with his companions?" Then he said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath."
The Gospel of the Lord.

The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Abiathar: Ahimelech
when David ate the show bread and shared it with his men.

reaping: plucking or picking the heads of grain, harvesting
gleaning: act of collecting left over crops from harvested fields
threshing: loosening the edible grain from chaff
winnowing: separating the grain from loosened chaff

primogeniture.


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