Daughters of St Paul | Daily Gospel Reflections

 Gospel Lk 13:10-17 Listen to the Gospel reading and reflection here... Unleash in your being the healing power of the Sacraments Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, "Woman, you are set free of your infirmity." He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, "There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day." The Lord said to him in reply, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering? This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabba

 Lk 6:1-5 Trying hard to be assertive? Gospel Text: While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?" Jesus said to them in reply, "Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?" Then he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath." Reflections: Jesus safeguards those who belong to him, defending them steadfastly against any accusations and confrontations. In today's gospel, when the Pharisees questioned Jesus about his disciples’ actions on the Sabbath, he responded by drawing upon an incident from the Old Testament involving David (cf. 1 Sam 21:1-6). By citing this example, Jesu