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27.06.2015 HEALING

Posted under Reflections on June 26th, 2015 by

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 8:5-17

Jesus healed many people while he was doing his public ministry. One requirement for healing was the faith. In many cases he demanded the faith from the people who were in need of healing but there were also cases where the faith of the sick person was not needed but the one who wanted him/her to be healed. This was the case of the one who was paralyzed and was carried by four and now here in this case of the centurion.

Here in the case of the mother -in- law of Peter and the healings done in the evening nothing is mentioned about this requirement. Faith is not expressed but probably it is presumed or believed to have had. Divine action is free and gratuitous and it does not have any requirement. Healing is totally a divine action.

இந்த நற்செய்தி பகுதியில் இயேசு நூற்றுவர் தலைவரின் பணியாளனை குணப்படுத்துகிறார்> பேதுருவின் மாமியாரை குணப்படுத்துகிறார்> மாலையில் பலரையும் குணப்படுத்துகிறார். ஒரு சில வேளைகளில் நம்பிக்கை தேவைப்படுகிறது> பல வேளைகளில் இனாமாக புதுமைகள் செய்யப்படுகிறது. புதுமைகள் இறைச்செயல்களே.

26.06.2015 LEPER

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GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 8:1-4

Great crowds followed him. I wonder about the reaction of the crowds on seeing Jesus talking to a leper. Jesus asked the leper to go and do as Moses prescribed. Probably this was to tell the people that Jesus was within the limits of Mosaic tradition. Crowds would have wondered about Jesus relating to leper and yet following the traditions of Moses.

A person with leprosy was considered impure in the Old Testament. He was forbidden to associate with the rest of the people. The people of Israel were called to be Holy as God the Father was Holy. Being holy also means being healthy (wholly). So unhealthy signs are signs of impurity and they have to be dissociated from the rest. Here Jesus associates with the leper to show that sickness does not in any way defile the person.

தொழுநோயாளர் தீட்டுப்படடவராக கருதப்பட்டார். அவர் மற்ற மக்களோடு உறவாட முடியாது ஏனென்றால் மற்றவர்கள் தூயவர்களாய் இருந்தார்கள். “தூய குருக்குலம்”. ஆனால் இயேசு நோயையும் மனிதனையும் இணைத்துப் பார்க்கவில்லை.

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