1st Reading Hosea 2:16,17-18,21-22
Psalm Psalm 144:2-9
Gospel Matthew 9:18-26
We are ushered into the weeks of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time with a continuation of Matthew's narration of the ministerial life of Christ.
Today, we are presented with the raising of the official's daughter and the healing of the woman with a Haemorrhage. We have to realise that these are feminine characters receiving the restorative power of Christ. Jesus enters their hopeless situations and spurs hope.
The narrative, however, begins with the Official seeking from Christ life for her daughter who has just died. The story seem to be overshadowed by Jesus' interaction with the woman with a Haemorrhage.
Our disposition matters in what we seek. Faith complements and becomes a good ground for God's redemption. There should always be an effort on our part. We have to do the least. Just affirm to touch his cloak, make an effort to kneel down before him.
The identification of the feminine receptors draws on a very peculiar issue which also applies to us, not only females. In spite of the fact that females in the Middle East in Jesus' time depicted life because they give birth and are honored as such, they are often portrayed to form part of the weak population with majority being widows. In our weaknesses, while society sees no good in us, God descends into our nature and takes us to the unexpected state.
Faith, together with a good disposition, is necessary.
Pax et Bonum
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