A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Fourteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 9: 18-26 Matthews Gospel is all about relationship with a very real and ever present God, who walks besides us and is waiting to interact with us. Then why do we not see him and are not able to […]
A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Fourth Week Of Ordinary Time Mark 5: 21-43 Experts say that Mark is using the sandwich technique of story telling to give us a message with this long narrative of Jairus’ Daughter. The Sandwich Filling being the story of the Woman with the Twelve Year […]
A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday Of The Fourteenth Week In Ordinary Time Matthew 9:18-26 This is the shortened version of Mark’s Gospel with some changes, read Mark 5:21-43. We see the healing of two women, one a minor and another who suffered of haemorrhage (continuous bleeding) for twelve years. While in Mark, the […]
A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
Matthew 9:18-26 We find two healings in today’s passage, the healing of woman suffering for twelve years is sandwiched in the middle of the raising up of the ruler’s daughter. This was one of the style of writings in those days. What tremendous faith we find in both the cases. The ruler who must […]
A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed
Mark 5:21-43 The Gospel narrative begins with Jesus again in Jewish territory and surrounded by crowds. A synagogue leader named Jairus arrives and surprisingly falls at the feet of Jesus; this is startling since the last time Jesus appeared in a synagogue the narrative ended with a plan to kill him (3:6), even though his […]