September 5
Sunday
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Wis 9:13–18b
Indeed, who can know the intentions of God? Who can discern the plan of the Lord?
For human reasoning is timid, our notions misleading; a perishable body is a burden for the soul and our tent of clay weighs down the active mind.
We are barely able to know about the things of earth and it is a struggle to understand what is close to us; who then may hope to understand heavenly things?
Our reflection from the readings this week is:
When the woman with the hemorrhage dug her way through the crowd to reach Jesus, she had one goal in mind; to be cured from the illness that has denied her a normal life. Apparently, she had sought a cure that was available to her; she spent a fortune on countless visits to her primary care-giver and specialists; she underwent painful tests, yet a cure was far from near (Mark 5:26). Her insurance probably couldn’t cover all her medical expenses; if she was out of a job because of her illness, then she equally lost any form of insurance coverage. This woman was, as a matter of fact, in the throes of trauma and helplessness, as the illness dug a hole into her life. But she didn’t stop fighting the illness that was fighting her to death. She didn’t give in to hopelessness and despair.
