Not exact matches
The Pharisees stood aghast when Jesus and his disciples crossed
through the grain fields on the
sabbath, and the disciples plucked the ears of grain and ate them.
He repeatedly rebuked Mosaic Laws
through the gospels by working on the
sabbath, saving adulteres from stoning, divorce, etc..
Taken this way, good
Sabbaths make good Christians by regularly reminding us of God's creative, liberating and redeeming presence, not only in words but also
through a practice we do together in response to that presence.
When you release yourself from your typical schedule, and give your mind, body and soul a much needed inner and outer
sabbath through juice fasting, you awaken space to dream and create.
Artist Massimiliano Bomba produced a video for the fair that touches on these notions in image and text,
through a root analogy of beekeeping and nudges to the link between production and global destruction in «Octagon» (2016): «Sunday,
sabbath, rest.
Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God «face to face,» 184 will we fully know the ways by which — even
through the dramas of evil and sin — God has guided his creation to that definitive
sabbath rest185 for which he created heaven and earth.