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Many healings and revivals made Jesus one of his miracles. The Gospel of today brings us healing and revivification related to each other. It is the daughter of Jairus, who dies while the Lord is delayed in healing the hemorrhoid (Mk 5, 21-43). It happened that when Jesus arrived with the apostles in Capernaum, many people came to him when they came out of the boat. Among the crowd was the head of the synagogue, called Jairo, who asks her very worried: "My daughter is very serious, come and put your hands on it so that she will heal and live." As he began his journey with Jairus The crowd followed Jesus and many touched and squeezed him in. Among them, a woman who, for 12 years, had suffered from a blood flow so serious that it was not so bad. she had spent all her money buying medicine and medicine, but it was getting worse and worse, she, full of faith and hope in the only one who could heal her, came into the crowd, thinking that if she could at least touch Jesus' cloak, she would be healed.This woman was at risk because according to Jewish concepts she was "impure" and contaminated everyone who touched her, so she was not to interfere with crowd, let alone touch Jesus.For this reason he touches the mantle, "thinking that they do not That touching the dress would be cured. How his faith would be strong! She did not really know who Jesus was, but she had faith that it would heal her. All of these considerations explain the woman's delay in going ahead and identifying with Jesus, who asked who had touched the mantle. In fact, the gospel tells us that the Lord felt that a miraculous power was coming from Him, so he asked – as he did not know – who had touched the mantle. He stopped until the woman identified him. And by making her bow to Him, she recognizes the strength of her faith when she says, "Your faith has saved."
1.- Note that the Lord did not tell him that his faith had "healed" him, but that he had "saved" him. And that's the case, because any physical healing in which we recognize divine intervention – and in every God intervenes, even if we do not realize it – not only heals, it saves. Physical healing is not the most important thing: it's like an addition to salvation. If there is no inner change in the soul, by faith and trust in God, little or no physical healing serves spiritual well-being. With regard to healings, another important thing to consider are the many ways God heals. Sometimes it can heal in a direct and miraculous way, like this case of the hemorrhoid: just by touching it. Other times he uses material means, as in the case of the blind, when he took the earth he mixed it with saliva and made a clay that he coated in the eyes of the blind man. Other times, he uses no means but his word or his desire. Sometimes he healed from afar, like the servant of the Centurion. Sometimes he heals right away, at other times gradually, like the case of the 10 lepers, who realized that they were healing while they were about to appear in front of them. authorities.
2.- The important thing is to know that in all healing, God intervenes, although neither the doctors nor the sick do consider him, it is like this: God heals directly or indirectly. All healing is a miracle in which God remains anonymous … if we do not want to account for his intervention. And when there is no physical healing, we should know that God also intervenes. And we must be careful, because the bad attitudes we have before diseases – good or bad – can be a reason for many spiritual ills, because of the attitudes of rebellion and rejection that are before us. But, accepted in God; that is, by accepting the will of God, accepting what he has disposed of in his infinite wisdom, diseases can be the cause of many spiritual goods. Such is the case of a Saint Ignatius of Loyola, for example, who became – and became the Saint he is – while he was recovering as a result of a war injury to his leg .
3.- Return to the Gospel: to all this, how would Jairo be impatient for this delay? And, indeed, at the same time as the hemorrhoid is prostrating before Jesus, they warn that his daughter was already dead. By the way, the girl was 12 years old, at the same time as the bleeding woman. Jesus, then, continues the road towards the house of Jairo, but discreetly, with Pedro, Santiago and Juan. Notice that Jesus tried to hide the most impressive miracles. He thus avoided being considered as a candidate for a political and temporal messianism very different from his divine and eternal messianism. When he arrives at home, he soothes the whole world and declares that the girl is not dead, but that she sleeps. He goes out everyone, and only before the three disciples and the parents of the girl, did he come back from the sleep of death. For the Lord, death is like a dream. For him, it is so easy to get out of a dream, as it will be, to raise us all from death.
Conclusion: And this "dream" will wake us up when I come back to realize the resurrection of all the dead. This girl came back to earth life, to the same life that she had before dying. All the revivals made by the Lord, that of Lazarus, the son of the widow of Naim and this one, are indeed very great miracles. But a greater miracle will be when we all go to a glorious life, when we are resurrected on the last day. And it will be instantly "in the blink of an eye" (1 Cor 15, 51-52). We will relive, but not like these three gospels, who have returned to the same life as before. When the Lord resurrects us in the next life, we will live again, but in a new condition: with incorruptible bodies, who will no longer become sick, will suffer or grow old, but will be glorious bodies like Jesus after his resurrection. More importantly, our resurrected bodies will be immortal: they will not die. This "poverty" of Christ, the one that lowers to appear as someone, this "poverty" for which he died, has made us "rich", very rich, in spiritual graces. Because by the redemption that He worked with His death on the cross, He made us heirs of infinite wealth, which never ends and lasts eternally: Eternal Life.
1.- Note that the Lord did not tell him that his faith had "healed" him, but that he had "saved" him. And that's the case, because any physical healing in which we recognize divine intervention – and in every God intervenes, even if we do not realize it – not only heals, it saves. Physical healing is not the most important thing: it's like an addition to salvation. If there is no inner change in the soul, by faith and trust in God, little or no physical healing serves spiritual well-being. With regard to healings, another important thing to consider are the many ways God heals. Sometimes it can heal in a direct and miraculous way, like this case of the hemorrhoid: just by touching it. Other times he uses material means, as in the case of the blind, when he took the earth he mixed it with saliva and made a clay that he coated in the eyes of the blind man. Other times, he uses no means but his word or his desire. Sometimes he healed from afar, like the servant of the Centurion. Sometimes he heals right away, at other times gradually, like the case of the 10 lepers, who realized that they were healing while they were about to appear in front of them. authorities.
2.- The important thing is to know that in all healing, God intervenes, although neither the doctors nor the sick do consider him, it is like this: God heals directly or indirectly. All healing is a miracle in which God remains anonymous … if we do not want to account for his intervention. And when there is no physical healing, we should know that God also intervenes. And we must be careful, because the bad attitudes we have before diseases – good or bad – can be a reason for many spiritual ills, because of the attitudes of rebellion and rejection that are before us. But, accepted in God; that is, by accepting the will of God, accepting what he has disposed of in his infinite wisdom, diseases can be the cause of many spiritual goods. Such is the case of a Saint Ignatius of Loyola, for example, who became – and became the Saint he is – while he was recovering as a result of a war injury to his leg .
3.- Return to the Gospel: to all this, how would Jairo be impatient for this delay? And, indeed, at the same time as the hemorrhoid is prostrating before Jesus, they warn that his daughter was already dead. By the way, the girl was 12 years old, at the same time as the bleeding woman. Jesus, then, continues the road towards the house of Jairo, but discreetly, with Pedro, Santiago and Juan. Notice that Jesus tried to hide the most impressive miracles. He thus avoided being considered as a candidate for a political and temporal messianism very different from his divine and eternal messianism. When he arrives at home, he soothes the whole world and declares that the girl is not dead, but that she sleeps. He goes out everyone, and only before the three disciples and the parents of the girl, did he come back from the sleep of death. For the Lord, death is like a dream. For him, it is so easy to get out of a dream, as it will be, to raise us all from death.
Conclusion: And this "dream" will wake us up when I come back to realize the resurrection of all the dead. This girl came back to earth life, to the same life that she had before dying. All the revivals made by the Lord, that of Lazarus, the son of the widow of Naim and this one, are indeed very great miracles. But a greater miracle will be when we all go to a glorious life, when we are resurrected on the last day. And it will be instantly "in the blink of an eye" (1 Cor 15, 51-52). We will relive, but not like these three gospels, who have returned to the same life as before. When the Lord resurrects us in the next life, we will live again, but in a new condition: with incorruptible bodies, who will no longer become sick, will suffer or grow old, but will be glorious bodies like Jesus after his resurrection. More importantly, our resurrected bodies will be immortal: they will not die. This "poverty" of Christ, the one that lowers to appear as someone, this "poverty" for which he died, has made us "rich", very rich, in spiritual graces. Because by the redemption that He worked with His death on the cross, He made us heirs of infinite wealth, which never ends and lasts eternally: Eternal Life.
(*) Mario A. Díaz M. is: Professor of Religion and Philosophy. Bachelor of Education Graduate of the Catholic University of Maule
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