July 16, 2021 Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 12:1-8 For the Pharisees sabbath is more on observing the laws and keeping regulations. Sabbath is equated to legalism. Day of rest for them is a standard of regulations and ordinances. Inshort, sabbath is like this: DO THIS, DO THAT. They thought that keeping the laws are more important than helping someone in need. They thought that following the rules are far better than providing food for the hungry. Pharisees were law orriented people but destroy relationships. They were law abiders but charity breakers. They were faithful to the laws but they don’t have love for the needy. My dear friends, legalism lack the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore. Are we this type of people? Brethren, if we keep on attending daily mass, faithful in our novenas, excellent in praying the rosary but blind to the needs of others there is something wrong in our spiritual life. God desire mercy not sacrifice. Friends, our belief does not make us a better person, our behaviour does. Blessings Fr. Jhack