Jesus tells us: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice."

Today we once again have to put up with the complaints of some Pharisees. Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field of grain. Perhaps it was already midday and they were hungry. They began picking heads of grain to eat. Perfectly normal, right? Yet some people began criticizing them. The problem was not eating the grain, but that it was the Sabbath… and on the Sabbath—according to them—it was not lawful to pick heads of grain (?). —If we do not pray, we put ourselves in God’s place, invent laws, and instead of acting with mercy, we begin persecuting the “innocent who do not think as I do.”