In the story of the healing of the paralytic in Mark 3:1-5, the great fault of the Sadducees and Pharisees was that they had become enslaved to their liturgical calendar.
Healing could not have happened on the Sabbath because man-made laws were more important than the men for whom they were created to serve, they would say.
How sad when the loving compassion of the Living God grows stale under the uncompromising devotion of religion.
