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:
A man sick
with cancer asked the Lord, “Why am I suffering Lord”? 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 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.
There will
come a time that we will also get sick and may suffer as well. Let us never
forget to offer our suffering/s to Jesus. Let us ask Jesus to help us endure our
suffering/sickness. Though it may be difficult, let us learn to accept it and
continue to have that enormous faith in the Lord. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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