July 08, 2019 Monday 14th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Gen 28:10–22 Gospel: Mt 9:18–26
While Jesus was speaking to them, an official of the synagogue came up to him, bowed before him and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and place your hands on her, and she will live.” Jesus stood up and followed him with his disciples.Then a woman who had suffered from a severe bleeding for twelve years came up from behind and touched the edge of his cloak. For she thought, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” Jesus turned, saw her and said, “Courage, my daughter, your faith has saved you.” And from that moment the wo-man was cured.When Jesus arrived at the official’s house and saw the flute players and the excited crowd, he said, “Get out of here! The girl is not dead. She is only sleeping!” And they laughed at him. But once the crowd had been turned out, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she stood up.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Today’s Gospel presents two females, a young girl taken for dead at a very young age and a woman suffering from hemorrhage. Jewish culture considered women as second class citizens. Contact with blood and with corpses was also punished as violation of the law on ritual purity. If being in contact with blood was a violation of ritual purity, what could be said of the woman who for twelve years was bleeding profusely? If contact with dead bodies was similarly violative, what could be said of the child who was lying cold and dead?
The depth to which the status of these two women had plunged in the eyes of society was matched with the heights to which the faith involved in their restoration soared so mightily. Great faith empowered the synagogue official to come to Jesus even though his daughter was already dead. Great faith made the bleeding woman believe that a mere touch of Jesus’ clothes could put an end to her hemorrhage.
Impressive was Jesus’ reaction to the twin interruptions. The synagogue leader interrupted Jesus’ preaching, while the woman interrupted Jesus’ walking. Jesus gave both interruptors his full attention. He went in haste to the house of the synagogue official as requested. He also stopped walking and encouraged the woman who felt guilty for having stolen from him the energy that cured her hemorrhage.
One great lesson we can draw from the above circumstances is that faith never fails to catch the attention of God. Has your status gone lower than the status of the woman in hemorrhage? Are you so broke, feeling like dead because you have nowhere to go for help? Cheer up and keep the faith, for God is within reach. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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