Wherever they heard he was

Gn 1,1-19; Ps 103; Mk 6,53-56
11 FEBRUARY

The crowd is urged to look for every person capable of solving its physical, material and bodily problems. It is a way aroused by the Lord to reach true faith. But it is necessary that on the other side there is one who always acts in the name of the Lord in the perfect fulfilment of his will. No way of God must be declared useless. If it is aroused by God, it is certainly good. Instead his minister, his prophet, his presbyter and his apostle are not good, if they do not use this way to give true salvation. Did not Naaman the Syrian come to the faith because of his leprosy? Having been healed on the word of Elisha, did he not decide to worship only the God of Israel?
When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, he sent word to the king: “Why have you torn your garments? Let him come to me and find out that there is a prophet in Israel.” Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. The prophet sent him the message: “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean.” But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out and stand there to invoke the Lord his God, and would move his hand over the spot, and thus cure the leprosy. Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?” With this, he turned about in anger and left. But his servants came up and reasoned with him. “My father,” they said, “if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, would you not have done it? All the more now, since he said to you, ‘Wash and be clean,’ should you do as he said.” So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.” “As the Lord lives whom I serve, I will not take it,” Elisha replied; and despite Naaman’s urging, he still refused. Naaman said: “If you will not accept, please let me, your servant, have two mule-loads of earth, for I will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice to any other god except to the Lord. But I trust the Lord will forgive your servant this: when my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship there, then I, too, as his adjutant, must bow down in the temple of Rimmon. May the Lord forgive your servant this.” “Go in peace,” Elisha said to him (2Kings 5,8-19).
How might a minister of God work, so that every man that comes to him for any spiritual, material, body and soul need can listen to the true Word of Christ Jesus, the invitation to conversion, the journey in history as true Body of Christ, working for the Body of Christ, in the body of Christ? There are no prefabricated, pre-packaged answers to this question and not even pastoral rules to be observed. The way for each individual soul must be suggested by the Holy Spirit. If the minister of Jesus is the one to grow every day in grace, wisdom, truth, justice, compassion, mercy, intimate union and communion with Christ, in Christ, the Spirit of Christ will always suggest him the right Word to speak to the heart. Otherwise he will speak from his science or his doctrine, from his heart or from the heart of the world, from this or from that other school of thought, but no salvation will be accomplished. The heart remains empty of longing for salvation and the mind devoid of truth. The minister is poor of the Holy Spirit. The misery of our apostolate always reveals our spiritual misery.
After making the crossing, they came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.
Jesus is full of the Holy Spirit. He knows how to speak to every heart. To every single person he indicates the way of life. After Christ the Lord has been met, everyone is accountable before God for his non-faith or non-conversion. Everything has been given to him. There is nothing that God might give him. He spoke to him through his Son full of the Holy Spirit.
Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Christian always speak full of the Spirit of God.