Gospel
text (Mathew 12,1-8): It
happened that Jesus walked through the wheat fields on a Sabbath. His disciples
were hungry, and began to pick some heads of wheat and crush them to eat the
grain. When the Pharisees noticed this, they said to Jesus, «Look at your
disciples; they are doing what is prohibited on the Sabbath!». Jesus answered,
«Have you not read what David did when he and his men were hungry? He went into
the house of God, and they ate the bread offered to God, although neither he
nor his men had the right to eat it, but only the priests. And have you not
read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath
rest, yet they are not guilty? I tell you, there is greater than the Temple
here. If you really knew the meaning of the words: ‘It is mercy I want, not
sacrifice’, you would not have condemned the innocent. Besides the Son of Man
is Lord of the Sabbath».
Gospel text ( L uke 11,1-4): One day Jesus was praying in a certain place and when He had finished, one of his disciples said to him, «Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples». And Jesus said to them, «When you pray, say this: Father, hallowed be your name, may your kingdom come, give us each day the kind of bread we need, and forgive us our sins, for we also for-give all who do us wrong, and do not bring us to the test»
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