Christian Art Today - 'What I want is mercy not sacrifice'

Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi by Edouardo Kobra (born 1975), Paint and spray paint August 2018 © Kobra, all rights reserved by the artist

Gospel of 19th July 2019 - Matthew 12: 1-8

Jesus took a walk one sabbath day through the cornfields. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, 'Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath.' But he said to them, 'Have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry - how he went into the house of God and how they ate the loaves of offering which neither he nor his followers were allowed to eat, but which were for the priests alone? Or again, have you not read in the Law that on the sabbath day the Temple priests break the sabbath without being blamed for it? Now here, I tell you, is something greater than the Temple. And if you had understood the meaning of the words: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless. For the Son of Man is master of the sabbath.'

Reflection on the Street Art Graffiti work

The artwork today is by Brazilian street artist, Kobra, depicting Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi, painted on the side of a building on 18th Street and 10th Avenue in New York... To read on see: www.christianart.today/daily-gospel-reading/116