Readings
I - Eph. 4: 32 - 5:8
II - Lk. 13: 10-17
GO BUSY DOING GOOD
In today’s Gospel passage the compassionate and merciful Jesus who was teaching in the synagogue calls a woman who was crippled by a spirit, bent over, completely incapable of standing erect and heals her on the Sabbath. This act of Jesus, the violation of Sabbath, infuriates the hypocritic leaders of the synagogue while the simple people in the crowd rejoiced over the same. One cannot wait for time, season and reason for accomplishing any good work is the crux of the Gospel passage of the day.
In our culture too, we often hesitate to do good on certain days and times. All days, time and season belong to God. We fail to realise this and refuse to do even those activities that charity demands of us. Go beyond all these and be concerned about not missing any opportunity that awaits us to do good. Let our mind and heart resonate with the prayer, “Lord Jesus, rid me from the prejudice of mind”.
