Gospel: Mark
6:53-56
After
making the crossing to the other side of the sea, Jesus and his disciples came
to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people
immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and
began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever
villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the
marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.
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Reflection:
Yesterday
I went to a sick man to give him Holy Communion. As I was reading to him the Sunday
gospel and I as I was giving him a short reflection, I noticed that he was
sobbing. I proceeded pretending not to notice his sobs.
As I gave
him the Body of Christ tears were already welling in his eyes. After I was
through with the rite and about to leave their house, he cried and asked me, “Why
am I suffering brother? I can’t bear my sickness anymore and I can’t bear the
pain of going through the procedure of chemotherapy anymore.”
In the gospel
those who were able to touch the tassel of Jesus’ cloak were very fortunate for
they received healing in return. It
speaks volumes of their faith. But there are also those who have faith but
they’re not physically healed. There are those who have faith but they continue
to suffer from their sickness. Sometimes it may baffle us why they physically
suffer considering that they also have faith that they also love Jesus.
The
healing that Jesus gives us is not always physical, oftentimes its spiritual which
means that we're given the grace to accept our physical sickness and the grace
to completely surrender our life to the great mercy of Jesus.
There are
people who are still happy in spite of their physical sickness for they’ve
learned to offer to God their suffering. They’ve learned that the suffering
that they’re undergoing right now is nothing compared to the suffering that
Jesus went through.
Are you
suffering right now? Offer your suffering to Jesus ask Jesus to help you endure
your suffering/sickness. Though it may be difficult, learn to accept it and
continue to have that enormous faith in Him. Jesus is already healing you and He's already purifying your spirit. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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