Gospel for Tuesday, January 16th

Gospel
Mk 2:23-28

As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath,
his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him,
“Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did
when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest
and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat,
and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them,
“The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

Comments:
The disciples began eating the heads of grain while they were passing through someone's field. In Deuteronomy 23:25 it shows that it was lawful for travelers to eat the heads of grain while passing through even though the fields belonged to someone else. It seems that that the Pharisees were spying on Jesus and His disciples in order for them to know about this.
When they accused the followers of Jesus he appealed to the scriptures. "Have you never read"
The Pharisees were the scripture experts but Jesus is Lord of everything. Even Lord of the sabbath.

Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. The Church has changed the day of obligation to Sunday instead of Saturday. Sunday is the resurrection day. Jesus has the authority to make this change. He gave this authority to His Church. Oh how many people have failed to see this. To worship on Sunday instead of Saturday is testimony to one's belief in this Church that Jesus founded.