Reflection for  TUESDAY, 4th Week in Ordinary Time.

By

 

Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore

Today's Gospel verses 

Mark 5:27-34 

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,  because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”  Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 

At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 

“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.  He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering 


Today's Reflection 

Blood is certainly thicker than water. And with that, we can also say that the emotions between family and relations go much deeper than with others.

More so if the emotions are resentment, bitterness and hatred. The closer the relationship is, the thicker and deeper will these emotions go.

We can imagine the feelings and emotions when a son rebels and plots against his father. No culture would accept that and it would not be in the son's favour.

So we can understand why David's commander, Joab had no qualms about thrusting the three lances into Absalom's heart while he was hanging alive in the branches of a great oak.

Such a son is a curse to the family and society and it would be better that he be killed and wiped away from the face of the earth.

Yet, David's reaction to the death of his son, the very son who rebelled and plotted against him and would even kill him, left his followers bewildered and the troops returned back stealthily as if in shame.

David grieved and mourned for his son. After all, blood is thicker than water and David was a good father and he loved his son Absalom.

And it was the same for the synagogue official in the gospel. Jairus fell at the feet of Jesus and pleaded with Him to come and cure his daughter and to save her life.

Yes, blood is thicker than water and any good father will go all the way to do whatever they can for their children, whether they deserve it or not.

Similarly, God our Father will do whatever to love us and save us, even if it means having to sacrifice His only Son for us.

Let us turn from our wayward  and sinful ways and return to God our Father and be healed by His love and forgiveness.

GOD BLESS YOU 

Good morning. Have a nice safe day