Worry. Let’s see the concern of the Lord Jesus for man.

Our morality teaches us that love triumphs even over duty to the law. But we know that God is Love.

They did not want to admit this and stubbornly upheld the laws of the synagogue leaders when the Lord Jesus healed a sick woman on Saturday who had been hunched over for 18 years and could not straighten up. He said: “The woman is freed from her illness” (Lk 13:12). Because of this, a sharp exchange of views occurred between Jesus and the superiors of the synagogues about celebrating the Sabbath rest. The people, although they saw and heard what the Lord Jesus was doing, did not accept his offer to enter the kingdom of God; he rejected his calls to repentance and stubbornly maintained his external understanding of religion. The head of the synagogue is angry that the Lord Jesus heals on the Sabbath. According to him, it is a great job. But he no longer considers it heresy to take care of his cattle. He goes to water because he is thirsty. He can understand this, but he cannot understand helping another – the help shown by the Lord Jesus to this sick woman. What can be delivered to an animal cannot be delivered to a person. Such is the opinion of the head of the synagogue. Such teaching is Pharisaical. In this beautiful example, we can see the far-reaching consequences of the love of the Lord Jesus and the ossification of the paragraphs of the Law of the nation’s leaders. Saturday was a memorable day for the Jewish people to free the nation from Egyptian captivity. That is why even the head of the synagogue should have been happy that one of the nation’s sisters found relief from her illness. The superior may not have been the wrong person, but he stuck to the rules and knew little about love. For him, the prescription was more than an act of love.

After this explanation, we will think. Aren’t we like the head of the synagogue? Aren’t we just prescriptions? It can become an opportunity for us to say goodbye to chronic faith. Adults, try to develop your faith, leave childish ways, and start living the faith of your time. Living your faith means living it ever new and new, ever young and enriching. We have to get rid of such thoughts that still bother someone, that faith belongs to the Middle Ages, that it does not appeal to the youth, that it is far from the mentality of a man. On the contrary, we are witnessing the fact that faith, for those who try to know and understand it better, becomes a beautiful impulse in life and helps them to solve problems. The Lord Jesus healed a sick woman on Saturday. So he brought a new atmosphere to the celebration of Saturday. The Church does not distance itself from the teachings of Christ when it understands the temporal and regional needs of believers.

For us, Sunday is a day of rest, but that does not mean we are idle. It is a day to experience the family community. A day to deepen your knowledge in the field of faith. It is a day when we can visit each other and use the meeting to comfort, encourage, strengthen, or bring joy to the sick and old.