The Healings at Gennesaret

Today's Reflections

The Healings at Gennesaret 

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Mk 6:53-56

⁵³After making the crossing, [Jesus and his disciples] came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. ⁵⁴As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. ⁵⁵They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. ⁵⁶Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.

Reflection:

That they might touch only the tassel on his cloak. Jesus has a healing touch. He touches people and they are healed. But in the Gospel, it is when people touch Jesus, or just the tassel on his cloak, that they are healed. What brings healing is the people’s touching Jesus with their faith, and not only with their hands.

Today we, too, can reach out to Jesus in faith. Often I see people touching the images of Jesus the Nazarene or the Crucified One. When they touch the images they are actually reaching out in faith to Jesus. They do the same to us, priests. People reach out to us, sometimes pulling our hands, because they believe that blessing will be given them. I am sure that God who sees hearts responds to the faith of such people as well.

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and be touched by Jesus.