+ Our readings today tell of Jesus as the prophet rejected in his native place – who could not bring healing and wholeness to the broken members of his family of faith because of their lack of faith. But those, others, who had faith received his blessings and his healing power – as was prefigured by the fact that Elijah was sent to a widow in a foreign land of Sidon, rather than to his own people, to keep her from starving to death; and Elisha the prophet was sent to cleanse the leper Naaman the Syrian (we read the story of Naaman's cure in the first reading today from the Book of Kings). These were both signs that one day the Gentiles at large would have every right to his resurrected power and glory, along with his own family of faith.
May we rejoice in the fact that Jesus is the King of the Gentiles as well as the Jews; and he is Healer of all in us that needs healing, both internally and externally; and let us be grateful for the spiritual strength that he gives us in his gift of Eucharist: his very spiritual Body and Blood given for us and our salvation – all of us – of every religious persuasion and those holding none – all are saved by Jesus. May we who truly are his Body and Blood by means of our sacramental incorporation into him, relish that fact today – and tell others of it!
I hope in the Lord, I trust in his word; with him there is kindness and plenteous redemption.
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