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Bible

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.”

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How does a change of society come about?

The Good News of the Bible, God’s self-revelation, changes us in every respect. We acquire a new way of looking at the world and our society. All change starts in the human heart: first, the person himself must change interiorly and think and live according to God’s command; then, he can work outwardly, too. Conversion of heart, for which we must strive ever anew, is the real beginning of a better world. Only through that conversion do we recognize how institutions and systems must be changed and improved.