Isaiah 43: 18-19, 21-22, 24b-25
Psalm 41: 2-5, 13-14
2 Corinthians 1: 18-22
Mark 2: 1-12
What are the main images for you in today's Gospel? Are you struck by the tenacity of the man's friends? By a sense of claustrophobia when yet another body enters the house- and through the roof, no less?! Exasperated by the sour mood of the Scribes? Wondering how the paralytic man was feeling during this whole time? Imagining the silence in the crowded room when they man DID get up and walk away?
What a full and rich story for us!
Recall and believe the words in Isaiah: Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new! As you reflect on yet another healing story, consider what there might be in your life that keeps you "paralyzed", unable to move on. Ask God to heal whatever it is in your past that keeps you 'stuck', and look to this coming season of Lent as the opportunity to believe both that your sins are forgiven and that you are healed!
The topic for the Catechumenate this week is Eucharist.
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