Homily (Reflection) for Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (12th February, 2021) on the Gospel
Gen 3:1-8;
Ps 31:1-2.5-7 (R. v.1);
Mk 7:31-37.
Topic: Turn to God.
Today’s gospel tells us how a deaf man who also had an impediment in his speech was brought to Jesus for healing.
He
took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his
ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed
and said to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is ‘Be opened.’ And immediately his ears
were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.
Jesus
looked up to heaven because “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made
heaven and earth” (Ps 124:8). And
the prophet Isaiah rightly noted that those “… who wait for the LORD shall
renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall
run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint” (Is 40:31).
We
all need the healing touch of Jesus in different areas of our lives. That Jesus
who restored the wholeness of the man is still at work and wants each and every
one of us to come to Him with our joys, pains, sorrows, disappointments,
heartbreaks, and so on. He can and is also willing to restore all of us to
wholeness because He came that we may have life and have it in full, cf. Jn 10:10. But we must turn to God for healing.
Bible Reading: Is 35: 1-6; Rom 10:5-21.
Thought for today: In every
circumstance, turn to God.
Let us pray: Lord,
we plead with you to heal every part of our body that we may praise you fully – Amen.
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