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1st Reading: 1 K 8:1?7, 9?13 / Gospel: Mk 6:53?56
Having crossed the lake, they came ashore at Gennesaret where they tied up the boat. As soon as they landed, people recognized Jesus and ran to spread the news throughout the countryside. Wherever he was they brought to him the sick lying on their mats. And wherever he went, to villages, towns or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplace and begged him to let them touch just the fringe of his cloak. And all who touched him were cured.
Daily Gospel in the Life Experience
Before creating human beings, God acted like a good Father who prepares everything needed by a child as the days of delivery of the wife approaches. When we were created, God prepared the world so that we may live to enjoy fullness of health. But we haven?t taken care of the world. We have challenged the sun by destroying the ozone layer, disturbed the heavens by polluting the skies with toxic gases, violated the earth by abusing its resources, and ravaged the dry land by our indiscriminate cutting of trees.
Because we have disturbed nature, sicknesses have crept in and we are all in desperate need of healing. The scenario presented by today?s Gospel reading where people were desperately seeking miraculous healings from Jesus would also be the scenario today if Jesus were historically present in our midst. But let?s call it comeuppance; we reap what we have sown. We are just so blessed that our God will still bail us out from the mess of our own making. God is compassionate. Even if the sickness we are suffering from is the result of our own wrong doing, God still mercifully intervenes to give us the healing we long for. So let us come to God and pray for healing.
But God needs our sincerity. Would you consider a person sincere in his prayer for healing if at the same time he trusts in faith healers? It?s amazing how often times the adherence of some sick people to the instructions of the faith healer even surpasses their adherence to the teachings of the Church. Some faith healers, by the way, have also made necessary adjustments so not to antagonize the Church by incorporating liturgical and para-liturgical symbols to their trade. Lately somebody asked me for holy water because his faith healer had asked him to tie a little container of holy water around his waist. If one is sincere in his request for healing from the Lord, he will put full trust in God by undergoing normal medication and praying hard for healing.
Central to this requirement of sincerity is one?s firm resolution never to abuse the environment again as shown in his personal advocacy to heal the earth. ? Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM-HRM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Text: 09176250016 please state sender?s name and location.
