13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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"God did not make death. . . and the creatures of the world are
wholesome,” lines from the first reading from the Book of Wisdom, set the stage
for the healing stories in the Gospel. The writer of the Gospel of Mark crafts a
complicated story-within-a-story narrative. The selection opens with a tense and
worried Jairus pleading with Jesus to come to his home to heal his sick daughter.
That scene gets interrupted by a woman whose desire for health and wholeness
pushes her close enough to Jesus to touch his cloak. In a crowd of jostling,
milling humanity, Jesus senses one hand stretched out to plead for health. After
the fearful yet cured woman “fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth,”
he praises her for her faith and sends her on her way into a new life ... (more)
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