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The real "rest" of Saturday
EDITORIAL TEAM evangeli.net (based on texts by Benedict XVI) (Città del Vaticano, Vatican)Today, we consider the true meaning of “Sabbath”. Saturday is a symbol of a love Alliance between God and man. The creation is conceived, precisely, as a space for the Alliance, as a meeting place between God and man, as a place to worship.
The true worship, the true offering to God cannot be the destruction of something (to sacrifice an animal for example), but the union of man and the creation with God. Belonging to God has nothing to do with destruction or the “non-being”, but rather a way of being (“to be with God”). Sabbath intends to participate in the rest and with the peace of God. Celebrating Saturday means to return to the origins, clean up the pollution that our works have produced, but when man refuses the “leisure of God” (worshipping) then he becomes a “business slave”.
—Lord, may nothing be installed before Your service.
September 1st
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Gospel and commentary video
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