Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- The Best Health Care

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 01.12.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

First Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 1:29-39

Friends, in the Gospel of Mark today, we see Jesus in action. We are reading from the section of Mark’s first chapter that gives us a sort of "day in the life" of Jesus. And it is quite a day! Our Gospel opens just after the dramatic expulsion of a demon in the Capernaum synagogue. After entering the house of Simon, Jesus cures Peter’s mother-in-law.

Notice that he takes her by the hand and brings her to her feet so that she can be of service. What does sickness do to us? It draws us in around ourselves. Once she is cured, Simon’s mother-in-law commences to serve, to be for the other. Then the entire town comes to his door. He spends the whole evening curing presumably hundreds who were variously afflicted.

Mark presents Jesus as a healer, soter, which just means "the bearer of the salus," or health. In him, divinity and humanity have come together; in him, the divine life and divine power are breaking through. God’s deepest intentions appear—what God plans for us in the kingdom to come is now historically anticipated.

[MurphsLaw]

+++On leaving the synagogue
Jesus entered the house of Simon and
Andrew with James and John.
Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with
a fever.
They immediately told him about her.
He approached, grasped her hand,
and helped her up.
Then the fever left her and she
waited on them.

When it was evening, after sunset,
they brought to him all who were ill
or possessed by demons.
The whole town was gathered at the
door.
He cured many who were sick with
various diseases,
and he drove out many demons,
not permitting them to speak because
they knew him.

Rising very early before dawn,
he left and went off to a deserted
place, where he prayed.
Simon and those who were with him
pursued him
and on finding him said, “Everyone
is looking for you.”
He told them, “Let us go on to the
nearby villages
that I may preach there also.
For this purpose have I come.”
So he went into their synagogues,
preaching and driving out demons
throughout the whole of Galilee.+++

[nagant]

I’ll even go you one better. In John, Jesus says “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

That’s 100% correct ...IN ITS REALM. God runs this show. He gave Jesus one set of tools, but he gave us a different set of tools. Our tools contain one metaphysical miracle which transcends flesh, victory over death. That was Jesus’ gift to us. All of the other miracles we have to perform with the earthly tools we were given. Intelligence and vaccinations are two of them.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Probably a good idea to go ahead and top yourself off with two or three boosters to get a full year’s worth of spike proteins now, before you have less than half a tank.

[ebb tide]

According to Bergoglio, “The Best Health Care” is to get the death vaxx, at the expense of murdered babies.