An unexpected encounter that heals
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LISTEN |
Each day we are invited anew to listen to the voice of God echoing in the daily. In the scripture that follows we see a man engaged in the weekly ritual of visiting the synagogue who in obeying a command is healed. In contrast ‘they’ who were there watching to see were unable to hear or respond to the invitation to see differently. Let us listen to this reading twice. In the first reading enter into the text as the man with the withered hand…. In the second be the Pharisees……
A reading from the gospel according to Mark
Jesus went into the synagogue, and there was a man present whose hand was withered. And they were watching him to see if he would cure him on the Sabbath day, hoping for something to charge him with. |
Daily we have the opportunity to come to quiet and seek wholeness and healing from the one who desires each of us to live fully….
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COME TO ME |
LOVE NOT LAW |
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The law is there to protect people’s rights and responsibilities. As a society changes laws may no longer serve the life of the community. In the scripture we just heard, Jesus is trying to challenge the Pharisees, the religious leaders, to question their law, a law that in some instances kept people on the margins of the community. The same is true of a school. Are there laws, rules, routines that you need to revisit or rules you need to design, as the wider culture within which the school is now embedded has changed? For example, in the early 1990’s social media did not exist as it does today. This has
changed our schools and our culture considerably. Francis, Bishop of Rome, reminds us…..
True faith in the incarnate Son of God is inseparable from self-giving, from membership in the community, from service, from reconciliation with others. The Son of God, by becoming flesh, summoned us to the revolution of tenderness.
Let us participate in the revolution of tenderness….
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