9 December 2017
Memorial of Saint Juan Diego
From the very first days of his public life Jesus showed pity for the crowds, especially those in need of healing. All were his brothers and sisters, especially “the troubled and abandoned.”
Today, like every day, we mingle with the crowds. Our world is like a endless mall along which we make distracted progress. Praying is bringing Christ to those we see, hear, bump, and touch along our way.
This means asking Jesus to enable us to see all we encounter along our crowed way with the same vision that he saw the crowds he healed.
In the 1st reading Isaiah speaks of the Lord binding up the wounds of his people. This healing is intended to be on the spiritual as opposed to the physical level. Then in the Gospel Jesus sends our the disciples to heal. Again it is spiritual healing.
So all of us are sent out to be healers of the spirit of those we encounter. The remedies are different, according to our temperaments and backgrounds.
On this first Saturday of the month, let us ask Mary to whisper to us how each of us can bring Jesus to the world.