Wednesday of Week 2 in Ordinary Time - Mark 3: 1-6

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

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Mark 3: 1-6 - 'Is it against the law on the sabbath day to save life?'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 574 (in 'Jesus and Israel') - From the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, certain Pharisees and partisans of Herod together with priests and scribes agreed together to destroy him (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.”

- 1859 (in 'Mortal Sin and Venial Sin') - Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.

- 591 (in 'Jesus and Israel's faith in God') - Such a demand for conversion in the face of so surprising a fulfillment of the promises allows one to understand the Sanhedrin’s tragic misunderstanding of Jesus: they judged that he deserved the death sentence as a blasphemer. The members of the Sanhedrin were thus acting at the same time out of “ignorance” and the “hardness” of their “unbelief" (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to the logical Bible study podcast, where we look at the gospel reading from today's Mass, and we want to get at the literal sense of the text.
0:21.1	What was the author trying to convey to his original audience?
0:25.4	Today at Mass you'll hear from Mark Chapter 3, verses 1 to 6.
0:30.8	So here's the reading.
0:33.2	Jesus went into a synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand,
0:38.9	and they were watching him to see if he would cure him on the Sabbath day,
0:44.0	hoping for something to use against him.
0:47.0	He said to the man with the withered hand, stand up out in the middle.
0:52.4	Then he said to them, is it against the law on the Sabbath day to do good,
0:57.6	or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they said nothing. Then grieved to find them so
1:07.6	obstinate, he looked angrily round at them, and he said to the man,
1:12.4	stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was better. The Pharisees went out and
1:20.2	at once began to plot with the Herodians against him, discussing how to destroy him.
1:29.8	So the context here is really important.
1:32.2	You remember in yesterday's episode, in yesterday's gospel reading, Jesus was walking through
1:37.7	the cornfields on the Sabbath and his disciples picked corn, picked grain on the Sabbath
1:43.9	day, and the Pharisees said, you can't do that,
1:46.1	it's the Sabbath day. And remember Jesus' response, he said, the Sabbath was made for man,
1:51.5	not man for the Sabbath. The son of man is Lord, even of the Sabbath. So that was the profound
1:58.0	response by Jesus in yesterday's gospel.
2:01.4	Today's gospel takes place, it appears, on the same day, later on that same day.
2:06.5	It's still the Sabbath.
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