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Reflection: Mark 2:1-12 Yesterday we reflected on the healing touch of Jesus – that heals even the dreaded leprosy. With his hands extended towards the untouchable, he taught us the lesson that no one is an untouchable before God. Today we see him back home in Capernaum, probably after the days of quarantine after touching […]
Reflection: Mark 1:40-45 A week ago we have reflected on Jesus healing the leper by touching him, as recorded by St. Luke in Chapter 5. We reflected on the courage of the leper who dared to breach the quarantine regulations – that were the social norms of those days to approach Jesus and also the […]
Reflection: Mark 1:29-39 Today’s Gospel passage presents Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother-in-law and then of many other sick and suffering people who gather round him. The healing of Peter’s mother-in-law is the first physical healing recounted by Mark: the woman is in bed with a fever. Father Armellini gives a beautiful explanation for this act […]