Then Solomon said, “The LORD
intends to dwell in the dark cloud; I have truly built you a princely house, a
dwelling where you may abide forever.” 1 Kings
8:12-13
Whatever 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. Mark 6:56
Piety
St.
Scholastica Prayer
O
God, to show us where innocence leads, you made the soul of your virgin Saint
Scholastica soar to heaven like a dove in flight. Grant through her merits and her prayers that
we may so live in innocence as to attain to joys everlasting. This we ask through our Lord.
Study
To
touch. To be touched. In the array of human senses, this is one of
the most profound ways we encounter the environment. Touch is not just an action, it also is an
emotion. People can be moved by a hug, an embrace. However, they also can be stirred by the
beauty of a song, a landscape or other artwork, or a speech or sermon well
delivered.
Sickness
does not heal itself. Sometimes an
illness may run its course but most times, it needs some outside
intervention. Medicine. Surgery.
Massage. Food. Water.
The body needs to be strengthened to overcome whatever ails it. Loneliness
does not heal itself, either. The answer
to loneliness is relationship.
Jesus
broke with the conventional wisdom. He needed no herbs or potions. He needed no intervention beyond his touch to
move people to healing. Without that touch, they would have remained blind in
Bethesda, lepers outside the city walls and otherwise afflicted. Without touching Him, they would have remained
outside of a right relationship with the overall community.
Action
Sometimes
we run out of medicine. Maybe the doctor
thought you needed the prescription for seven or ten days. But when things don’t clear up, she extends
the treatment. Not Doctor Jesus. As many as were touched were healed. His
healing touch was inexhaustible. Just as
the cloud touched everyone in the temple, Jesus touches everyone.
Through
whom will He touch you today? How can
you extend His touch to others?
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