The curing of the deaf-mute is much more than a story about a person’s physical handicap. The pagan man could not hear the good news of Jesus much less proclaim it, because he was deaf and dumb. Jesus wants this man too to receive the message of God’s love and communicate it to others.
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The curing of the deaf-mute is much more than a story about a person’s physical handicap. The pagan man could not hear the good news of Jesus much less proclaim it, because he was deaf and dumb. Jesus wants this man too to receive the message of God’s love and communicate it to others.
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The ceremonial washings in our religious practice flow from our belief that God whom we seek to encounter, and approach is All Holy. Therefore, we need to go to Him, clean and worthy.
Jesus wouldn’t really care much if dissent and defection were indeed to occur among His disciples. Jesus was inviting them to discern for themselves. What He clearly does is simply give His teachings and challenges, and then to poke us time and again by asking us a question or two.
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The gospel stresses that Jesus is the bread of life, “I am the bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” In the Eucharistic celebration, we see Jesus as the Word of God that became flesh and as the incarnation of God’s wisdom
The feeding of the crowd is recorded in all the four Gospels, and all the evangelists agree that Jesus brings forth the superabundant loaves and fish by multiplying the small amount of food available. In the Gospel of John, the little amount of food came from a young boy. This small detail gives a different slant in highlighting the aspect of sharing.
The disciples had been with the Lord for quite some time. They have been witnesses to Jesus’ ministry. Some of them, His inner circle of friends, Peter, James and John, have been with Him in his quiet moments of prayer.
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Two individuals approach Jesus with a wish and an expectation. The first person is Jairus, a synagogue official, who was not inclined to run to Jesus, for the teachings of Jesus had upset the Jewish leaders
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Two individuals approach Jesus with a wish and an expectation. The first person is Jairus, a synagogue official, who was not inclined to run to Jesus, for the teachings of Jesus had upset the Jewish leaders
Jesus was on their way to the other side of the lake, when a violent squall came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, threatening the disciples’ survival. The boat was understood to represent the church which had rough sailing. There were many incidents in church history which almost caused the sinking of the church
