In today's Gospel passage, our compassionate Jesus releases a woman bent over for 18 years, of all times, on the sabbath. (cf. Lk 13:10-17). He knew what he was doing and that the leader of the synagogue would be angry. Jesus is quick to reply: "This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?" (Lk 13: 16). May we be moved by this story to remember that the works of charity, of healing, override the letter of the Law. The sabbath is "God's day" and certainly the works of love have a place there, of all places. May the Holy Spirit free us from the constraints that keep us from performing acts of charity "even on the Sabbath!"
Bro. Rene
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