Readings
I - 2Sam. 18: 9-10, 14, 24-25, 30-19:3
II - Mk. 5: 21-43
FAITH RAISES AND RESTORES
The Gospel passage of the day is about healing of the woman who suffered from severe hemorrhage and the rising of Jairus daughter. Both were in a way dead: only socially dead and the other physically dead. The woman in hemorrhage experienced a social death because she was considered to be unclean and was in a way ostracised from associating with others. One was raised from death and the other was restored back to her health and society. This was possible because of the faith of the woman and the faith of Jairus. Faith in God raises and restores.
When problems, worries and fears seem to grip us up in to depression, stress and setbacks, take the woman and Jairus as models and seek the Lord. Jesus has promised that we can even move mountains with our faith like mustard seed and that to the one who has faith nothing is impossible. Faith is basically a gift of the Holy Spirit. Let us ask the Lord for the gift of faith so that we might be victorious and successful in all that we do. May our mind and heart resonate with the prayer: “Lord Jesus, fill us with the gift of faith”.
