Friday, July 19, 2024
Is 38:1-6,21-22,7-8; Mt 12:1-8
Today’s Gospel highlights Jesus’ religion as one of humanity, compassion, and love.
In what Jesus highlights, Jesus also represents that for God, religion is humanity too.
Amid those who weaponized religion to oppress ordinary people, Jesus instrumentalized it to liberate them and proclaim God’s love.
It is with this view that Jesus opposes the legalistic claims of the Pharisees in today’s Gospel.
For Jesus, what is more essential is feeding the hungry stomachs than depriving them of life-sustaining food in the name of the law.
It is this religion of humanity that Jesus came preaching about.
It is also because Jesus preached a religion whose epicenter was forgiveness, compassion, love, and humanity that people from all walks of life flocked toward him.
Contrarily, Jesus also vehemently criticized and resisted any inhumanity in the name of religion orchestrated by the religious leaders of his time.
Now, Jesus has given us the mandate to proclaim a religion as Good News.
Christian love is that which opposes legalism and promotes humanity.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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