HUNGRY TO DEATH

Tuesday in the 2nd Week in Ordinary Time
Mark 2:23-28

Hunger knows no boundaries. It does not choose its victims. It does not respect seasons and never knows obedience to the law. Hunger can kill. But hunger can be solved. No one has to die of hunger.

No one must die of hunger because every living creature knows how to eat. But what if there is not enough supply of food to eat? What if despite the availability of food, there are people that make the food unavailable? What if there is food but there is a law that prohibits eating? Then hunger becomes fatal indeed.

In the Gospel today, the disciples must be hungry as they are picking heads of grain and crushing them in their hands as they go through grainfields. If they are not hungry, then why are they picking grains? But the Pharisees do not care if the disciples are hungry or not. They care more about the Sabbath, forgetting that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

No one should die of hunger. But some people do die of hunger. Sadly, more may still die of it because there are still “Pharisees” around.