Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - Miraculous Faith

The Catholic Thing ^ | 02.06.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Mark 6:53-56

Friends, today’s Gospel reports Jesus healing many people at Gennesaret.
We hear that people brought the sick from all over the region and all of them were cured.
“Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.”

An awful lot of contemporary theologians and Bible commentators
have tried to explain away the miracles of Jesus as spiritual symbols.
Perhaps most notoriously, many preachers tried to explain the multiplication of the loaves and fishes
as a “miracle” of charity, with everyone sharing the little that he had.

But I think it’s hard to deny that the first Christians were intensely interested in the miracles of Jesus
and that they didn’t see them as mere literary symbols!
They saw them for what they really were:
actions of God breaking into our world.

[MurphsLaw]

+++After making the crossing to the other side of the sea,
Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret
and tied up there.
As they were leaving the boat,
people immediately recognized him.
They scurried about the surrounding country
and began to bring in the sick on mats
to wherever they heard he was.
Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces
and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.+++

[Rich21IE]

Interesting. I never doubted the veracity of the miracle accounts.

[MurphsLaw]

Well, It's a little bit of Biblical pick and choose
with a lot of folks.

[ebb tide]

Why did you deceptively post the link as being to the Catholic Thing, knowing it was instead to Boobie’s Pants on Fire website?

Are you that desperate to pimp Barron's website?

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Perhaps most notoriously, many preachers tried to explain the multiplication of the loaves and fishes as a “miracle” of charity, with everyone sharing the little that he had.

Francis Does Not Believe in Christ's Multiplication of Loaves

Too bad Boobie won't call out the chief heretic. That's why he was promoted.

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