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July 9, 2012 – Matthew 9:20-26 – A Girl Restored to Life and a Woman Healed

"Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering form hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to her, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.” Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well… When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute–players and the crowd making a commotion, he said, “Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping. …But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand and the girl got up."

Father Michael Busch mentioned that the gospel has two stories intertwined together – raising a dead child and healing miracle of a sick woman. Jesus’ touch is an act of compassion. He allowed himself to be touched by a bleeding woman who was considered an outcast and an impure woman but was given the title of being a daughter of Israel and God’s chosen one. Jesus showed that no one is unworthy of the love and grace of God. God declares his own beloved children. No one is beyond the love of God or unworthy due to ethnic background, age, gender, or lifestyle like the beggars and those suffering from drugs or alcohol. We call ourselves Christians and can declare each one of us as worthy child of God.

July 7, 2012 – Matthew 9:14-17 – The Question about Fasting

"Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we, and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The wedding-guest cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and the they will fast.” No one sews a piece of shrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put not fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

In his homily today, Father Patrick Fitzpatrick advised that the message of the gospel is to look at the past but not to live in the past. We do not need to patch up the past like putting a new cloak into old wineskins. Father Patrick wants us to meditate on the serenity prayer “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”