Daily Catholic Lectio
Mon, 8 July 2024
Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Monday
Hosea 2:14-16, 19-20. Matthew 9:18-26
Faith in action
This passage narrates two miraculous healings by Jesus: the raising of Jairus’ daughter and the healing of the woman with a discharge of blood. These miracles demonstrate Jesus’ power over death and illness, revealing His divine authority and compassion.
A synagogue leader, comes to Jesus in desperate faith, seeking help for his dying daughter. The woman with the haemorrhage, suffering for twelve years, also approaches Jesus in faith, believing that touching His garment would heal her.
Two things were common to these two people: faith and action. They believed that Jesus could restore life and health. They not only believed but also began their journey towards Jesus.
Today, whatever good we want to achieve, we need to have faith that things will be possible for us, and we need to act in order to make things come into being, for wishing alone will not make it so.
In the first reading, the Lord God restores their relationship with the people of Israel using the metaphor of ‘husband and wife.’
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When we encounter the wall of life – when we encounter life as an end – in fact, it’s only a bend; a new journey is always possible when there is faith in action (Jubilee 2025 AD, bite 142).
Fr. Yesu Karunanidhi
Archdiocese of Madurai
Missionary of Mercy
Yesu Karunanidhi 
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