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Daily Gospel Commentary

Monday of the Fifth week in Ordinary Time
Commentary of the day
Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), Carmelite, Doctor of the Church
The way of perfection, ch. 34 (©Institute of Carmelite studies)

"As many as touched it were healed"

Now if, when Jesus went about in the world, the mere touch of his robes cured the sick, why doubt, if we have faith, that miracles will be worked while he is within us and that he will give what we ask of him since, in eucharistic communion, he is in our house? His Majesty is not accustomed to paying poorly for his lodging if the hospitality is good. If it pains you not to see him with your bodily eyes, con­sider that seeing him so is not fitting for us...

But our Lord reveals himself to those who he sees will benefit by his presence. Even though they fail to see him with their bodily eyes, he has many methods of showing himself to the soul, through great interior feelings and through other different ways. Be with him will­ingly; don't lose so good an occasion for conversing with him as is the hour after having received Communion.

17 posted on 02/04/2018 9:53:17 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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“…if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.”

Pope Saint Pius X

18 posted on 02/04/2018 9:57:29 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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