Christ Jesus, heal my heart to love like you ...

Gospel Mystery of the Day            Wednesday, January 23, 2018
                                                                                                          
Good Morning!      
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
 
Mark 3: 1-6
  
Like the withered hand of the man in the synagogue, the hearts of Jesus’ critics were three sizes too small and minimally functional. On the other hand the heart of Christ Jesus was expansive and welcoming (and disciplinary!) regardless of the time or the place. Regardless of the personal danger he incited, Jesus publicly asked the man with the crippled hand to ‘Stretch out your hand’ and softened and restored form, motion and function to the man’s fingers, palm, wrist and forearm. In essence with this miracle, Jesus was inviting the Pharisees, and all of us who suffer from hardness of heart, to stretch forth their (and our)  hearts to him, so that they (and we) too might be restored in understanding, flexibility and compassion. Today will I stretch out my heart to Jesus so that he can heal and limber up my capacity for divine love and mercy? Christ Jesus heal my heart to love like you.   
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[Christ Jesus] became a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life.   (Hebrews 7:16)
 
 Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
 
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