Then Jesus looked around at them with anger and deep sadness, because they had closed their minds. And he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and
his hand was healed. As soon as the Pharisees left, they met with Herod’s supporters, looking for a way to destroy Jesus.
REFLECTION:
Again, we are invited by the gospel to reflect on what is more important for us, the following of religious
precepts whose reference is the letter of the law, or a relaxed more peoplecentered understanding
of it. We are sometimes tempted to be rigid and unyielding in our faith because it is easier, than to
follow its greater demand to love. For in loving we are called to overcome the boundaries and confines
that laws create for the greater good. Perhaps it’s because we do not trust our capacity to love that we
would rather seek refuge in the strict following of the law rather than exploring its loving and liberating
aspect that demands we abandon ourselves in the call to love without restraint.
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