Thought of the week

High light:
(1)What is the difference between healing & recovery?
(2)Jesus cured hemorage woman,then asked who has been cured? Did Jesus(God)didnot know,who has been cured? Why HE showed this to us?. Similarly does Jesus not know jairus daughter has died?. What HE wants to show us from this incident?
(3)Why 3 Gospel Writers(except Jn),has written these 2 independent action together?
(4)Major difference from judaism to Christianity is that rituals such as worshiping with slaughtering sheep, With spreading blood in offering table/male circumcise/restriction of pork With catholic7 sacraments. Why this difference came?
(5)Is this 7 sacraments are same with other Christian denominations?these have 3 major groups. Ie initiation to church(3)+healing 2+community(2)why Healing function was not necessary,before to Jesus?
(6)If Jesus is God, why sick woman has to touch HIM? Why HE has to lift the dead girl by saying'Talith kum'?. Will it mean for the acrament of healing, use of olive oil+for penance, meeting a priest necessary?  
(7)To heal Ur disease,is it necearry to have confession With priest(coming to life with God)+get anointed with olive oil from Priest
Important?
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GBU


Today 1st July 2018, we celebrate the 13th sunday mass of ordinary 2 season, today church invite us to reflect about main changes introduce by Jesus as against Christianity and sacrament of healing which has been introduced by Holy spirit!

We draw our attention to know the value of administering Sacraments and the relevance of these sacraments to our life. Specially today our attention was drawn for the healing sacrament!.
There are 7 sacraments in Catholic church, where as in other denominations they don't believe in all 7, hence they may have lesser no of sacraments!


When we talk about healing naturally, it will come into your mind,
What is the difference between Healing and Recovery?

Wounds,cuts,scratches &broken bones usually heal. Similarly emotions such as loss of a loved one requires a healing process(taking time). To recover means to feel physically better so we can function normally.  Ex: recovery from a cold is not a cure or healing. 

Healing involves repair of living tissue,organs &biological systems as a whole &resumption of normal functioning. It is very seldom that you are able to cure from disease by yourself without support of 3rd Party(doctor). Normal life gets affected due to mental+physical sickness. Medical doctor's advice needs to be followed for recovery. 

Our spiritual doctor(God)has guaranteed happiness. For that,we act according to what HE advice!Failure to do that(sin)requires going to confession, then again being Receptive to God &Heal back to happiness. Holy spirit has introduced sacrament of healing: anointing sick+confession.

Articles 1066 to 1690 of the catechism of catholic church cover the public worship of the believers(called liturgy) as celebrated in the official rituals and ceremonies known as the 7 sacraments.
The catechism of the catholic church underscores the biblical foundation for each sacrament and the concept that christ instituted them. sacraments are Sacred Rites
,Which are entrusted to the care of the church. Each one of them will have 1 or more components,which are perceptible to one or more of the 5 senses.(For example using water in Baptism or olive oil in anointing the sick, and so on...) The supernatural grace of God, which is invisible, is symbolized by the tangible elements that is necessary for the sacrament to be valid. The catechism of the catholic church makes it clear that divine grace is not limited to the sacraments. It is not by necessity-but by divine choice-that God uses these spiritual vehicles to give human kind this special gift. It was God who made men and women a combination of body and soul, so it would make sense that same God would use things of the created world to symbolized the invisible reality of divine grace.




Before to Jesus,worshipping to GOD, was carried out with spreading the blood of the animals, at the offering table. In christianity this has changed to 7 sacrement, which consists of 3 major parts: INITIATION to the church(BAPTISM, HOLY EUCRASTIC & CONFIRMATION): PENANCE (also called confession or reconciliation ) and ANOINTING of the sick are sacrament of HEALING. Matrimony and Holy orders are sacrement of COMMUNITY. Sacraments are sacred rites. The catholic living mainly center ed on 2 sacrements, PENANCE,(their SINS can be erased), HOLY EUCRASTIC(where they  participate, the LAST SUPPER of JESUS).The elements  water, olive oil, Wheat Bread, 14% strength grape wine,is used for sacrements and cannot be changed even by POPE!.Catholic believes the conversion of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, at the HOLY MASS. Hence only WORSHIP is given to HOLY EUCRASTIC.




Today's reading:

Book of wisdom(Ws 1:13-15,2:23-24) says"It was the devil's envy that brought death in to the world"

Paul says(2 cor 8:7.9. 13-15)" In giving relief to others,balance what happens to be your surplus now against their present need"

Mark(5:21-43) says"Jesus restores a woman to health & brings the dead girl back to life!


In today's Gospel
2 miracles has been reported by 3 Gospel writers, except John. They should have separated these 2 miracles in their writings. But all of them has written in one paragraph!. 

Two miracles we found,
Jesus cured hemorrhage woman,then asked who has been cured? Did Jesus(God)didnot know,who has been cured? Why HE showed this to us?. Similarly does Jesus not know jairus daughter has died?. What HE wants to show us from these incident?

Another points that need to be analyzed!
Then why Jesus showed us, sick person has to touch HIM, to bring back the life of the child, HE lifted her and said' tali kum". These 2 miracvles illustrate how our sacraments full fill their purpose, specially the sacrament of healing. The sacrament 
Of reconciliation(Penance)and the acrament of anointing the sick"Jesus was immediately conscious that Healing power had gone out of HIM" says the Gospel. That means HE still conscious about Healing power when ever these 2 sacraments are administered.

A sacrament is a sign : it points to Healing feeding,forgiving,strengthening.
The human condition that we all share is generally in need of healing. There is a lack of wholeness in us. It may be physically, mentally, spiritually or combination of them all. We are always fearful, insensitive, unforgiving,vengeful, un appreciative of goodness and beauty in others or in the world of nature. Each of u knows our own weakness. And we want to be healed, made whole again.
But there are certain requirements on our part too. It is obvious from todays gospel that our 1st requirement is our faith."Fear is useless Jesus says" what is needed is trust."Daughter it is your faith that has cured you". It I hardly necessary to insist that faith in Jesus is essential. But We also need faith in ourselves we have to believe that we are Worth of healed and that is not always easy due to many reasons.  A poor self image can result from national origin,lack of education,even physical infirmities or sins we may committed in the past. But not a single one of these causes is valid. All that matter is who we are. WE ARE PERSONS WHOM GOD HAS CALLED INTO EXISTANCE BECAUSE GOD HAS KNOWN AND LOVED US FROM ALL ETERNITY. God cares for us not for where we come from or what we look like!.
So we need faith in ourself but above all is Jesus. We have to believe that HE believes in us and that HE is eager to heal us of our infirmities , what ever they are!. JESUS DOES WANT PEOPLE TO BELIVE THAT THEY ARE WOTH OF BEING HEALED!

Thank you
GBU

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