Today's Gospel September 5, 2020 with the advice of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corìnzi
1Cor 4,6: 15b-XNUMX

Brothers, learn [from Apollo and me] to stick to what is written, and do not swell with pride by favoring one at the expense of another. Who then gives you this privilege? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you have received it, why are you bragging about it as if you had not received it?
You are already full, you have already become rich; without us, you have already become kings. Wish you had become king! So we too could reign with you. In fact, I believe that God has put us, the apostles, in the last place, as condemned to death, since we are given in spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
We fools because of Christ, you who are wise in Christ; we weak, you strong; you honored, we despised. Until this moment we suffer from hunger, thirst, nakedness, we are beaten, we go wandering from place to place, we tire ourselves working with our hands. Insulted, we bless; persecuted, we endure; slandered, we comfort; we have become like the garbage of the world, everybody's waste, until today.
Not to make you ashamed I am writing these things, but to admonish you, as my dearest children. In fact, you could also have ten thousand pedagogues in Christ, but certainly not many fathers: it is I who generated you in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Luke
Lc 6,1-5

One Saturday Jesus passed between fields of wheat and his disciples picked and ate the ears, rubbing them with their hands.
Some Pharisees said, "Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"
Jesus answered them, "Did you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?" How did he enter the house of God, took the loaves of the offering, ate some and gave some to his companions, although it is not lawful to eat them except for the priests alone? ».
And he said to them: "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
Rigidity is not a gift from God. Mildness, yes; goodness, yes; benevolence, yes; forgiveness, yes. But stiffness is not! Behind the rigidity there is always something hidden, in many cases a double life; but there is also something of disease. How rigid people suffer: when they are sincere and realize this, they suffer! Because they cannot have the freedom of the children of God; they do not know how to walk in the Law of the Lord and they are not blessed. (S. Marta, 24 October 2016)