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Showing posts with label Healing of the Paralytic. Show all posts
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Friday, 17 February 2012

Reflection/Homily: Seventh (7th) Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B (February 19 2012)


     A certain young lady got married and could not take in after twelve years. The husband and his relatives were worried and threatened her with a divorce. Touched by the woman’s predicaments, her friends decided to take her to a gynecologist who was also an expert in psychology. She examined her thoroughly and found nothing physically wrong with her system. She delved into the interior aspect of her life and after some psychological tests discovered that the young lady have had twelve abortions before marriage. After the counseling and recommendations she received, in less than a year, she took in and was delivered of a baby safely.

          The similarity between this story and that of the paralytic in the gospel reading is that the two patients were taken to be healed not by themselves because of their incapability to help themselves but by their friends. For us, this means that our journey

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