RB: Ch 31:1-12 The Qualities of the Cellarer
Mass: Gn 28:10-22a; Resp Ps 91; Mt 9:18-26
In you, my God, I place my trust.
HEART OF JESUS, PATIENT AND MOST MERCIFUL,
HAVE MERCY ON US.
It is through the lens of a line from John Cassian that I reflect on today's Gospel: "God's generosity is shaped according to the capacity of human faith." First, there is the official who knelt before Jesus and believed: "My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live." Second, the woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve! years: "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured." The little girl arose … the woman was cured. Living and true God, Divine Healer, increase our faith.
I KEPT FAITH, EVEN WHEN I SAID, "I AM GREATLY AFFLICTED."
(Ps 116:10)
The following two quotations are from William of St Thierry (12th century Cistercian):
Give me also, Lord, a faith devout and pure, holy, strong, and unassailable, so that, bestowing grace for grace, you may say even of me: Go, for your faith has made you whole.
We pray because you tell us to do so; we ask with confidence, because we have your promise; and forthwith you run to meet us and answer our prayer, finding in us a ground for your forgiveness, because you have yourself made us forgivable.
Today's photo: Larkspur, paintbrush, and cat's ear in the Western Cascades, Oregon.
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