Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Our approach in life varies depending of course on the situations in which we find ourselves. Most people are who they are until a crisis seems to change the rules. When we look inward and truly reflect on our reality, we begin to understand we need an approach connected to something bigger than ourselves.
In the readings today we encounter three people, David, Jairus, and a woman afflicted with hemorrhages. All of them are suffering and in need of God’s help. David is humbled and in agony over the loss of his son. He realizes his approach to life needs to change. Jairus as a dad has likely tried everything to try and have his daughter healed. There is only one thing he hasn’t tried, but somehow he has come to believe that Jesus can heal his daughter. He approaches Jesus and askes for help and Jairus’s daughter is restored to health. A woman has been bleeding for twelve years, and she has exhausted her resources, financially, physically, emotionally. Somehow she knows only a spiritual approach will bring her healing. Her faith says even if she touches his garment then she will be healed. She too is healed.
We too, often have a circumstance or crisis that pushes us to approach the Lord because we have nowhere else to turn. Indeed, the Lord is always there for us and he answers our prayers. Yet we need an approach that has us calling on the name of the Lord in good times and bad. This week when we pray, “only say the word and our soul shall be healed.” Let these words give us pause and remind us that in faith we approach the real presence of the Lord. Eucharist, “Christ” has real power to heal us.
—Deacon Michael Montgomery