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Podcast: Catholic Daily Reflections
Episode: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time - Freedom From Condemnation
Description: Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, βSee, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.β Matthew 12:1β2When Moses gave the Ten Commandments to the people, there was a prohibition against working on the Sabbath. The Third Commandment said, in part, that βyou shall not do any workβ on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). By the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had added much commentary to this law and expand...