Tuesday of Week 2 in Ordinary Time - Mark 2: 23-28

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

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Mark 2: 23-28 - 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 581-582 (in 'Jesus and the Law') - The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi. He often argued within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law. Yet Jesus could not help but offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside theirs but taught the people “as one who had authority, and not as their scribes"...In presenting with divine authority the definitive interpretation of the Law, Jesus found himself confronted by certain teachers of the Law who did not accept his interpretation of the Law, guaranteed though it was by the divine signs that accompanied it. This was the case especially with the sabbath laws, for he recalls often with rabbinical arguments, that the sabbath rest is not violated by serving God and neighbor, which his own healings did." (abbreviated)

- 544 (in 'The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God') - Jesus shares the life of the poor, from the cradle to the cross; he experiences hunger, thirst, and privation (abbreviated)

- 2173 (in 'The Sabbath Day') - The Gospel reports many incidents when Jesus was accused of violating the sabbath law. But Jesus never fails to respect the holiness of this day. He gives this law its authentic and authoritative interpretation: “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.” With compassion, Christ declares the sabbath for doing good rather than harm, for saving life rather than killing. The sabbath is the day of the Lord of mercies and a day to honor God. “The Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome back to the podcast.
0:14.6	Today's reading at Mass is Mark chapter 2 versus 23 to 28.
0:20.0	So we're continuing in the Gospel of Mark. And there's a really
0:22.8	interesting scene here with Jesus and his disciples doing something that offends the Pharisees.
0:30.5	And there's a bit to talk about here. So let's get into the text. One Sabbath day, Jesus happened to be
0:37.0	taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples
0:40.7	began to pick ears of corn as they went along.
0:45.1	And the Pharisees said to him, look, why are they doing something on the Sabbath day that is
0:50.3	forbidden?
0:51.4	And he replied, did you never read what Jesus did in his time of need when
0:56.8	he and his followers were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiatha was high priest
1:03.1	and ate loaves of offering which only the priests were allowed to eat, and how he also gave
1:09.3	some to the men with him. And he said to them, the Sabbath was
1:15.0	made for man, not man for the Sabbath. The son of man is master even of the Sabbath.
1:26.4	So the setting here in verse 23, it says one Sabbath day. So really this could be any time.
1:32.4	It doesn't necessarily happen straight after the previous scene. Most likely this isn't
1:37.9	straight after the previous scene because what you'll notice about the last three or four
1:42.8	things we've looked at in Mark,
1:44.8	last three or four scenes, is that they all relate to food. So it could be that Mark is grouping
1:49.1	all these incidents that relate to food together in one spot in his gospel. Possibly, or I mean,
1:55.5	it could be chronological, we don't know. And it's a Sabbath day where this particular scene happens. So for the Jews Sabbath
2:03.4	day was Saturday. So it's from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. And often, I know that when I
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