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A moment to pause: Tuesday January 20th 2026 of Ordinary Time - Daily reflection prayer podcast
Good morning and thank you for joining our Oblate short time to pause, reflect and pray together. Thanks to Mary O'Brien in Dublin for today's reflection:
Today’s gospel is Mark, 2:23-28, and the extract I want to share is:
“One Sabbath he was going through the grain fields and as he made his way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said,’Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath’. …. Jesus said ‘The Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath’ “
In this text I think Jesus shows us how rules are not intended to be more important…
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