Book of Wisdom 1,13-15.2,23-24. Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. For he fashioned all things that they might have being; and the creatures of the world are wholesome, And there is not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of the nether world on earth, For justice is undying. For God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made him. But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are in his possession experience it.
Psalms 30(29) 2.4.5-6.11.12a.13b.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing.
Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me; O LORD, be my helper.” You changed my mourning into dancing; O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
Second Letter to the Corinthians 8,7.9.13-15. Brothers and sisters: as you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also. For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich. not that others should have relief while you are burdened, but that as a matter of equality your surplus at the present time should supply their needs, so that their surplus may also supply your needs, that there may be equality. As it is written: "Whoever had much did not have more, and whoever had little did not have less."
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 5,21-43.
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, "My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her that she may get well and live." He went off with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him. There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse. She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. She said, "If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured." Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who has touched my clothes?" But his disciples said to him, "You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'" And he looked around to see who had done it. The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction." While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official's house arrived and said, "Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?" Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, "Do not be afraid; just have faith." He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official, he caught sight of a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. So he went in and said to them, "Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep." And they ridiculed him. Then he put them all out. He took along the child's father and mother and those who were with him and entered the room where the child was. He took the child by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!" The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around. (At that) they were utterly astounded. He gave strict orders that no one should know this and said that she should be given something to eat.
In the Gospel today (cf. Mk 5:21-43) Jesus encounters our two most dramatic situations, death and disease. He frees two people from them: a little girl, who dies just as her father has gone to ask Jesus’ help; and a woman, who has had blood loss for many years. Jesus lets himself be touched by our suffering and our death, and he works two signs of healing to tell us that neither suffering nor death have the last word. He tells us that death is not the end. He defeats this enemy, from which alone we cannot free ourselves.
However, in this period in which illness is still at the centre of the news, let us focus on the other sign, the healing of the woman. More than her health, her affections were compromised. Why? She had blood loss and therefore, according to the mindset of the time, she was deemed impure. She was a marginalized woman; she could not have stable relationships; she could not have a husband; she could not have a family, and could not have normal social relationships, because she was “impure”, an illness that made her “impure”. She lived alone, with a wounded heart. What is the greatest illness of life? Cancer? Tuberculosis? The pandemic? No. The greatest illness of life is a lack of love; it is not being able to love. This poor woman was sick, yes, with blood loss, but as a result of lack of love, because she could not be with others socially. And the healing that counts the most is that of affections. But how do we find it? We can think of our affections: are they sick or are they in good health? Are they infirm? Jesus is able to heal them.
The story of this nameless woman — let us call her this way, “the nameless woman” — in whom we can all see ourselves, is exemplary. The text says that she had tried many treatments, “had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse” (v. 26). We too, how often do we throw ourselves into mistaken remedies to satisfy our lack of love? We think that success and money make us happy, but love cannot be bought; it is free. We hide in the virtual, but love is tangible. We do not accept ourselves as we are and we hide behind external facades, but love is not an appearance. We look for solutions from wizards and from holy men, to then find ourselves without money and without peace, like that woman. Finally, she chooses Jesus and throws herself into the crowd to touch Jesus’ garment. In other words, that woman seeks direct contact, physical contact with Jesus. Especially at this time, we understand how important contact and relationships are. The same goes for Jesus: at times we are content to observe some precepts and to repeat prayers — many times, like parrots — but the Lord waits for us to encounter him, for us to open our hearts to him, that, like the woman, we touch his garment in order to heal. Because, by becoming intimate with Jesus, we are healed in our affections.
--->Jesus wants this. In fact, we read that, even while pressed by the crowd, he looks around to find who touched him. The disciples were saying: “But you see the crowd pressing around you…”. No: “Who touched me?”. This is Jesus’ gaze: there are many people, but he goes in search of a face and a heart full of faith. Jesus does not look at the whole, like we do, but he looks at the individual. He does not stop at the wounds and mistakes of the past, but goes beyond sins and prejudices. We all have a history, and each of us, in our secret, knows well the ugly matters of our own history. But Jesus looks at them in order to heal them. We, instead, like to look at the ugly matters of others. How often when we speak, do we fall into chattering, which is speaking ill of others, “flaying” others. But look: what horizon of life is this? Not like Jesus, who always looks at how to save us; he looks at today; good will, and not the ugly history that we have. Jesus goes beyond sins. Jesus goes beyond prejudices. Jesus does not stop at appearances, but reaches the heart. And he heals precisely the one who had been rejected by everyone, an impure woman. He tenderly calls her “daughter” (v. 34) — Jesus’ style was closeness, compassion and tenderness: “Daughter…” — and he praises her faith, restoring her self-confidence.
Sister, brother, you are here, let Jesus look at and heal your heart. I too have to do this: let Jesus look at my heart and heal it. And if you have already felt his tender gaze upon you, imitate him, and do as he does. Look around: you will see that many people who live beside you feel wounded and alone; they need to feel loved: take the step. Jesus asks you for a gaze that does not stop at the outward appearance, but that goes to the heart: a gaze that is not judgmental, — let us stop judging others — Jesus asks us for a gaze that is non-judgmental, but rather welcoming. Let us open our hearts to welcome others. Because love alone heals life, love alone heals life. May Our Lady, Consoler of the suffering, help us bring a caress to those with wounded hearts whom we meet on our journey. And do not judge; do not judge the personal, social reality of others. God loves everyone! Do not judge; let others live and try to approach them with love.
Christ enters the house where he finds the young girl, he takes her to the main lady and he says: “Little girl, I tell you, come on!” "... Dear young people, the world needs your personal response to the Master's words of life: "I tell you, get up! » We see how Jesus comes to the meeting of humanity in the most difficult and most painful situations. The miracle performed in the house of Jairus shows us his power over evil. He is the master of life, the master of death...
But we can never forget what, if we understand the source, the first cause of evil, of illness, of death itself, there is the reason in these different forms. In the hearts of our hearts and souls there is this disease that we touch all of us: because our people, we are rooted more and more into our consciences to the extent that we lose our senses. Yes, dear young people, be careful not to let your sense of God weaken within you. On the other hand, the pain seems good if the man does not feel the senses of God, of his action, of his presence, here we invite you to join together on the grace, on the street, against sin, against death . The fate of humanity is in game...
The understanding that we must provide is the social implications of why we need to build a dignified world for men. The men and women who believe in a true "communion of reason" because, in the same time as I am, the Church is lowered and the world enters in a certain way... Dear young people, fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6:12) for the dignity of man, for the dignity of love, for a noble life, a life of children of God. Go ahead and ask God's forgiveness for help, there is a resurrection. Don't worry about the demands of Christ's love. Fear, on the contrary, pusillanimous, levity, the search for your own interests, selfishness, everything that wants to silence the voice of Christ who, addressing each of us, repeats: “I tell you, raise You ".
FAUSTI - "Your faith has saved you," Jesus says to the woman; and to the father of the dead girl . "Continue to have faith." The two episodes, interlocked and linked by the words "save", "believe" and "touch" (take the hand) complement each other and illustrate what faith is and what its power is. Faith is "touching" Jesus , His power saves in death. Communion with Him overcomes our mortal illness and death itself. The woman and the girl are a figure of all of us.Like the first, from twelve years, that is from always, we lose our lives, far from the Lord. Only if we touch Him are we saved, because He is our life. Like the second, at the age of marriage, we die sick of love if the Bridegroom does not come to take our hand. Our life, in fact, is to love Him as we are loved by Him. The central theme is therefore faith, that "touching" which saves. Touching presupposes closeness. The first and fundamental form of knowledge, it is contact with the other. In it, one's own limits become a place of communion. Finally, there is an exterior touch and an interior one, which takes and transforms the heart. Touching is opposed to crushing. While this will result in seizing and killing Jesus, the latter releases from Him His strength of Life. Salvation, invoked also by the disciples in the boat, comes from this faith. It allows us to touch Him and be seized by Him, who slept before us and for us. The woman dared not show herself: being unclean, she was forbidden to touch Him. On the other hand, our relationship with God and our search for Him can only come to His shoulders, as it was said to Moses: "You will see my shoulders, but you cannot see my Face" (Ex 33:23). "If I touch even His garments..." (He will bequeath them to us on the Cross). taking in exchange our nakedness). This faith is not magic or fetishism; man's salvation is really Communion with God, now possible through the flesh with which the Son clothed Himself. The woman knows her own healing in her body, but she does not yet know in her spirit the One who healed her. Jesus, having known the energy that comes from Him, the power of God, life that conquers death, seeks with His gaze and His Word the woman who has believed in Him, in order to dialogue with her. Now she stands before Him to answer Him and falls at His feet to adore Him. Her truth was her incurable illness, her despair of self and all, her hope in Him, His touch and healing. But it is only in talking about all this with Him that faith is fulfilled. The disciple is like the woman, the daughter of Zion who touches Jesus and is saved from her evil, is like the dead girl who is resurrected by the touch of the Bridegroom. Faith heals us from the sin of mistrust that makes us ignore that we come from God and return to Him. Only in this way can we live and die in peace, knowing that we sleep with Christ, who first slept in the same boat as us, to awaken with Him. Jesus, in front of the girl's father and mother, takes her hand. He too will be taken and led to death. That is why He now takes and rescues the girl from death. She belongs to Him, who came to take her hand. This contact with Him and the sound of His voice wakes her up. "Arise, my friend, my fair one, and come" (Ct 2:10). She walks on a path she did not know before: it is the path of life, full of joy in His presence, sweetness without end at His right hand (Ps 16:11).
30 June Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
RispondiEliminaBook of Wisdom
1,13-15.2,23-24.
Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
For he fashioned all things that they might have being; and the creatures of the world are wholesome, And there is not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of the nether world on earth,
For justice is undying.
For God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made him.
But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are in his possession experience it.
Psalms 30(29)
2.4.5-6.11.12a.13b.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
Second Letter
to the Corinthians 8,7.9.13-15.
Brothers and sisters: as you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also.
For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
not that others should have relief while you are burdened, but that as a matter of equality
your surplus at the present time should supply their needs, so that their surplus may also supply your needs, that there may be equality.
As it is written: "Whoever had much did not have more, and whoever had little did not have less."
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
Eliminaaccording to Saint Mark 5,21-43.
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.
One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. Seeing him he fell at his feet
and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, "My daughter is at the point of death. Please, come lay your hands on her that she may get well and live."
He went off with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him.
There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.
She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.
She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.
She said, "If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured."
Immediately her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who has touched my clothes?"
But his disciples said to him, "You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"
And he looked around to see who had done it.
The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth.
He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction."
While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official's house arrived and said, "Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?"
Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus said to the synagogue official, "Do not be afraid; just have faith."
He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official, he caught sight of a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.
So he went in and said to them, "Why this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."
And they ridiculed him. Then he put them all out. He took along the child's father and mother and those who were with him and entered the room where the child was.
He took the child by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise!"
The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around. (At that) they were utterly astounded.
He gave strict orders that no one should know this and said that she should be given something to eat.
POPE FRANCIS
RispondiEliminaANGELUS 27 June 2021
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Buongiorno!
In the Gospel today (cf. Mk 5:21-43) Jesus encounters our two most dramatic situations, death and disease. He frees two people from them: a little girl, who dies just as her father has gone to ask Jesus’ help; and a woman, who has had blood loss for many years. Jesus lets himself be touched by our suffering and our death, and he works two signs of healing to tell us that neither suffering nor death have the last word. He tells us that death is not the end. He defeats this enemy, from which alone we cannot free ourselves.
However, in this period in which illness is still at the centre of the news, let us focus on the other sign, the healing of the woman. More than her health, her affections were compromised. Why? She had blood loss and therefore, according to the mindset of the time, she was deemed impure. She was a marginalized woman; she could not have stable relationships; she could not have a husband; she could not have a family, and could not have normal social relationships, because she was “impure”, an illness that made her “impure”. She lived alone, with a wounded heart. What is the greatest illness of life? Cancer? Tuberculosis? The pandemic? No. The greatest illness of life is a lack of love; it is not being able to love. This poor woman was sick, yes, with blood loss, but as a result of lack of love, because she could not be with others socially. And the healing that counts the most is that of affections. But how do we find it? We can think of our affections: are they sick or are they in good health? Are they infirm? Jesus is able to heal them.
The story of this nameless woman — let us call her this way, “the nameless woman” — in whom we can all see ourselves, is exemplary. The text says that she had tried many treatments, “had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse” (v. 26). We too, how often do we throw ourselves into mistaken remedies to satisfy our lack of love? We think that success and money make us happy, but love cannot be bought; it is free. We hide in the virtual, but love is tangible. We do not accept ourselves as we are and we hide behind external facades, but love is not an appearance. We look for solutions from wizards and from holy men, to then find ourselves without money and without peace, like that woman. Finally, she chooses Jesus and throws herself into the crowd to touch Jesus’ garment. In other words, that woman seeks direct contact, physical contact with Jesus. Especially at this time, we understand how important contact and relationships are. The same goes for Jesus: at times we are content to observe some precepts and to repeat prayers — many times, like parrots — but the Lord waits for us to encounter him, for us to open our hearts to him, that, like the woman, we touch his garment in order to heal. Because, by becoming intimate with Jesus, we are healed in our affections.
--->Jesus wants this. In fact, we read that, even while pressed by the crowd, he looks around to find who touched him. The disciples were saying: “But you see the crowd pressing around you…”. No: “Who touched me?”. This is Jesus’ gaze: there are many people, but he goes in search of a face and a heart full of faith. Jesus does not look at the whole, like we do, but he looks at the individual. He does not stop at the wounds and mistakes of the past, but goes beyond sins and prejudices. We all have a history, and each of us, in our secret, knows well the ugly matters of our own history. But Jesus looks at them in order to heal them. We, instead, like to look at the ugly matters of others. How often when we speak, do we fall into chattering, which is speaking ill of others, “flaying” others. But look: what horizon of life is this? Not like Jesus, who always looks at how to save us; he looks at today; good will, and not the ugly history that we have. Jesus goes beyond sins. Jesus goes beyond prejudices. Jesus does not stop at appearances, but reaches the heart. And he heals precisely the one who had been rejected by everyone, an impure woman. He tenderly calls her “daughter” (v. 34) — Jesus’ style was closeness, compassion and tenderness: “Daughter…” — and he praises her faith, restoring her self-confidence.
EliminaSister, brother, you are here, let Jesus look at and heal your heart. I too have to do this: let Jesus look at my heart and heal it. And if you have already felt his tender gaze upon you, imitate him, and do as he does. Look around: you will see that many people who live beside you feel wounded and alone; they need to feel loved: take the step. Jesus asks you for a gaze that does not stop at the outward appearance, but that goes to the heart: a gaze that is not judgmental, — let us stop judging others — Jesus asks us for a gaze that is non-judgmental, but rather welcoming. Let us open our hearts to welcome others. Because love alone heals life, love alone heals life. May Our Lady, Consoler of the suffering, help us bring a caress to those with wounded hearts whom we meet on our journey. And do not judge; do not judge the personal, social reality of others. God loves everyone! Do not judge; let others live and try to approach them with love.
Saint John Paul II (1920-2005)
RispondiEliminaSpeech to young people
“Immediately the girl rose”
Christ enters the house where he finds the young girl, he takes her to the main lady and he says: “Little girl, I tell you, come on!” "... Dear young people, the world needs your personal response to the Master's words of life: "I tell you, get up! » We see how Jesus comes to the meeting of humanity in the most difficult and most painful situations. The miracle performed in the house of Jairus shows us his power over evil. He is the master of life, the master of death...
But we can never forget what, if we understand the source, the first cause of evil, of illness, of death itself, there is the reason in these different forms. In the hearts of our hearts and souls there is this disease that we touch all of us: because our people, we are rooted more and more into our consciences to the extent that we lose our senses. Yes, dear young people, be careful not to let your sense of God weaken within you. On the other hand, the pain seems good if the man does not feel the senses of God, of his action, of his presence, here we invite you to join together on the grace, on the street, against sin, against death . The fate of humanity is in game...
The understanding that we must provide is the social implications of why we need to build a dignified world for men. The men and women who believe in a true "communion of reason" because, in the same time as I am, the Church is lowered and the world enters in a certain way... Dear young people, fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6:12) for the dignity of man, for the dignity of love, for a noble life, a life of children of God. Go ahead and ask God's forgiveness for help, there is a resurrection. Don't worry about the demands of Christ's love. Fear, on the contrary, pusillanimous, levity, the search for your own interests, selfishness, everything that wants to silence the voice of Christ who, addressing each of us, repeats: “I tell you, raise You ".
FAUSTI - "Your faith has saved you," Jesus says to the woman; and to the father of the dead girl . "Continue to have faith." The two episodes, interlocked and linked by the words "save", "believe" and "touch" (take the hand) complement each other and illustrate what faith is and what its power is. Faith is "touching" Jesus , His power saves in death.
RispondiEliminaCommunion with Him overcomes our mortal illness and death itself.
The woman and the girl are a figure of all of us.Like the first, from twelve years, that is from always, we lose our lives, far from the Lord.
Only if we touch Him are we saved, because He is our life.
Like the second, at the age of marriage, we die sick of love if the Bridegroom does not come to take our hand. Our life, in fact, is to love Him as we are loved by Him.
The central theme is therefore faith, that "touching" which saves.
Touching presupposes closeness. The first and fundamental form of knowledge, it is contact with the other.
In it, one's own limits become a place of communion.
Finally, there is an exterior touch and an interior one, which takes and transforms the heart.
Touching is opposed to crushing. While this will result in seizing and killing Jesus, the latter releases from Him His strength of Life.
Salvation, invoked also by the disciples in the boat, comes from this faith.
It allows us to touch Him and be seized by Him, who slept before us and for us.
The woman dared not show herself: being unclean, she was forbidden to touch Him.
On the other hand, our relationship with God and our search for Him can only come to His shoulders, as it was said to Moses: "You will see my shoulders, but you cannot see my Face" (Ex 33:23). "If I touch even His garments..." (He will bequeath them to us on the Cross). taking in exchange our nakedness).
This faith is not magic or fetishism; man's salvation is really Communion with God, now possible through the flesh with which the Son clothed Himself.
The woman knows her own healing in her body, but she does not yet know in her spirit the One who healed her. Jesus, having known the energy that comes from Him, the power of God, life that conquers death, seeks with His gaze and His Word the woman who has believed in Him, in order to dialogue with her.
Now she stands before Him to answer Him and falls at His feet to adore Him.
Her truth was her incurable illness, her despair of self and all, her hope in Him, His touch and healing.
But it is only in talking about all this with Him that faith is fulfilled.
The disciple is like the woman, the daughter of Zion who touches Jesus and is saved from her evil, is like the dead girl who is resurrected by the touch of the Bridegroom.
Faith heals us from the sin of mistrust that makes us ignore that we come from God and return to Him. Only in this way can we live and die in peace, knowing that we sleep with Christ, who first slept in the same boat as us, to awaken with Him.
Jesus, in front of the girl's father and mother, takes her hand.
He too will be taken and led to death. That is why He now takes and rescues the girl from death.
She belongs to Him, who came to take her hand.
This contact with Him and the sound of His voice wakes her up.
"Arise, my friend, my fair one, and come" (Ct 2:10). She walks on a path she did not know before: it is the path of life, full of joy in His presence, sweetness without end at His right hand (Ps 16:11).