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What’s Your Diagnosis?
4 min
Gospel
Mk 6:53-56
And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennes′aret, and moored to the shore. And when they got out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him, and ran about the whole neighborhood and began to bring sick people on their pallets to any place where they heard he was. And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or country, they laid the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.
Readings are taken from Dynamic Catholic’s Bible: RSV Catholic Edition.
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Transcript
What’s Your Diagnosis?
Remember, each day we're looking for a word or a phrase or an idea that jumps out at you. The thing that jumps out at me today is that these people, they had this faith. It wasn't a time of mass communications, but they'd heard about Jesus, and they'd heard about the works he had done, and they'd heard about his ability to heal people. And they had this great faith. And they brought their friends and their families and everyone who was sick, and they laid them in front of Jesus. And they begged Jesus to heal them. And the question I ask myself as I hear these readings about healings, about sickness, blindness, deafness is, what is the deafness in me that needs to be healed today? What is the blindness in me that needs to be healed today? What is the sickness in me that needs to be healed today? And am I even aware of it? If you're really sick, you're aware you're really sick physically. If you're blind, you're obviously aware you're blind physically. If you're deaf, obviously, you're aware that you're deaf physically. But we can have massive spiritual ailments and pretend they don't exist or be oblivious to them or unconscious of them or whatever it is. And so Jesus in the gospel is constantly inviting us to say, "Okay, what's your deafness? What's your blindness? What's your sickness?" And right along top of that, he's coming along to say, "Because I am here to heal the sick. I'm here to help the blind see. I'm here to help the deaf heal." And so as we go through our day-to-day, let's think, "What are our limitations? What are our spiritual illnesses?" And let's ask God to heal us, beg God. I mean, they begged him. Let's beg God to heal us of our spiritual ailments. God bless you. Have a great day, and remember, be bold, be Catholic. I hope you're enjoying the daily gospel reflections. It's one of the things I love doing, spending this time with you each day. Recently, I released a book called 33 Days to Divine Mercy. If you haven't had a chance to check that out yet, I encourage you to do that today.
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