Alleluia - Cf. 2 Tm 1:10
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Our Savior Jesus Christ destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel - Mk 5:21-43
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat
to the other side,
a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.
One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward.
Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying,
“My daughter is at the point of death.
Please, come lay your hands on her
that she may get well and live.”
He went off with him,
and a large crowd followed him and pressed upon him.
There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.
She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors
and had spent all that she had.
Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.
She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd
and touched his cloak.
She said, “If I but touch his clothes, I shall be cured.”
Immediately her flow of blood dried up.
She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
Jesus, aware at once that power had gone out from him,
turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who has touched my clothes?”
But his disciples said to Jesus,
“You see how the crowd is pressing upon you,
and yet you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
And he looked around to see who had done it.
The woman, realizing what had happened to her,
approached in fear and trembling.
She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth.
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you.
Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.”
While he was still speaking,
people from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said,
“Your daughter has died; why trouble the teacher any longer?”
Disregarding the message that was reported,
Jesus said to the synagogue official,
“Do not be afraid; just have faith.”
He did not allow anyone to accompany him inside
except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official,
he caught sight of a commotion,
people weeping and wailing loudly.
So he went in and said to them,
“Why this commotion and weeping?
The child is not dead but asleep.”
And they ridiculed him.
Then he put them all out.
He took along the child’s father and mother
and those who were with him
and entered the room where the child was.
He took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum,”
which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”
The girl, a child of twelve, arose immediately and walked around.
At that they were utterly astounded.
He gave strict orders that no one should know this
and said that she should be given something to eat.
Raising of Jairus’ Daughter, Paolo Veronese, 1546, Public Domain
Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
To all of you a very blessed Sunday.
Listening to the Word of God, I conclude that we need to respond to God’s call to health, wholeness, and holiness. Yesterday, before the 5pm Mass, I attended a birthday party and a graduation party, both large in number. Someone came up to me at the graduation party, and as I went to introduce myself, she said, “Monsignor you knew me when my hair was long, straight and black. For the last four years, I have been battling pancreatic cancer and fighting through chemo treatments, several tough surgeries; and now I have hair that is silver and curly. She looked quite healthy, and she praised with gratitude both the care she had received from the Cleveland Clinic and for the instrumentality of God active in her being given another chance in life. And she asked for my blessing too, which I gladly gave.
We need today to respond to God’s call to us for health and wholeness and holiness, too. Yes, it was a very moving encounter for me yesterday. And today in the Gospel proclamation, we heard of the woman with the hemorrhage for years who desired only to touch the hem of the garment of the Lord Jesus, the Healer. And of course we also hear of that dad of fame and faith, Jairus, asking his savior to bring his daughter back from the point of death. And so, of course, Jesus did.
As we hear God’s Word today, we are reminded to think of Jesus as Divine Healer, the One whom we should bring before all of our illnesses and wounds, spiritual and physical alike.
Something happened over this past year-plus during the height of Covid. It happened that a parishioner brought to me a first-class relic of Saint Rocco, patron saint of those in pandemic and epidemics. I shared the relic with Deacon Mark, and he said, “Maybe we should seek his intercessory powers since St. Rocco is intercessor in pandemics.”
So you know full well that we’ve taken full advantage of the intercession of Saint Rocco to this parish. Over the next several weeks, I have transferred the relic to Saint Anthony’s Church in the Brier Hill so that they too can benefit from his intercession. There are so many of us that are grateful for having been rescued from so many perilous situations by the miraculous intercession of Saint Rocco.
We need to recognize the healing that is achieved through the sacraments of both Anointing and Reconciliation, and I remind each of you to go before the Doctor of Life, bringing your bodily illnesses and spiritual wounds before Jesus, where He will deliver healing to you.
Monsignor Michael J. Cariglio, Jr., Rector, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Basilica and Saint Anthony Parish.
First Reading - Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24
God did not make death,
nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
For he fashioned all things that they might have being;
and the creatures of the world are wholesome,
and there is not a destructive drug among them
nor any domain of the netherworld on earth,
for justice is undying.
For God formed man to be imperishable;
the image of his own nature he made him.
But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world,
and they who belong to his company experience it.
Responsorial Psalm - 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13
R. (2a) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the netherworld;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Second Reading - 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15
Brothers and sisters:
As you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse,
knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you,
may you excel in this gracious act also.
For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that though he was rich, for your sake he became poor,
so that by his poverty you might become rich.
Not that others should have relief while you are burdened,
but that as a matter of equality
your abundance at the present time should supply their needs,
so that their abundance may also supply your needs,
that there may be equality.
As it is written:
Whoever had much did not have more,
and whoever had little did not have less.
Spiritual Communion
It has long been a Catholic understanding that when circumstances prevent one from receiving Holy Communion, it is possible to make an Act of Spiritual Communion, which is a source of grace. Spiritual Communion is an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament and lovingly embrace him at a time or in circumstances when one cannot receive Him in sacramental Communion. The most common reason for making an Act of Spiritual Communion is when a person cannot attend Mass. Acts of Spiritual Communion increase our desire to receive sacramental Communion and help us avoid the sins that would make us unable to receive Holy Communion worthily.
Spiritual Communion Prayer
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there
And unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.
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