Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples

Gn 28,10-22a; Ps 90; Mt 9,18-26
8 JULY

The man that goes to Jesus believes that He can raise his daughter back and for this he makes him a very clear and explicit request: “My daughter died right now, but come, lay your hand on her and she will live”. This man transforms faith into prayer. He is sure that Jesus can and that is why he asks for help. Jesus accepts the invitation. He sets on the way towards the house of this man with his disciples. Faith is a very pure relationship with the truth of God and of every person of God, to whom the Lord confers his powers. Therefore, faith also becomes a relationship with our truth. If we are members of the body of Christ and participate in the powers of Christ, each according to modalities established by the Holy Spirit, we lack in any faith if we do not believe and do not confess our truth in our works. Today this is the Christian evil. It is not believed that the truth of God is the truth of Christ Jesus, that the truth of Christ Jesus is the truth of the Church, that the truth of the Church is the truth of each one of her children. Each of her children does not believe in the truth that comes to him from the sacrament received and that enables him to perform specific, particular and personal works.

Without the faith of Christ in the Father, there is no true faith in the Father. Without the faith of the Church in Christ, there is no true faith in Christ. Without the true faith of the Christian in the Church, there is no true faith in the Church. By not showing the Christian the truth of his faith to the world, it remains devoid of true faith in the Christian, in the Church and in Christ, in the world. Jesus, the person with a very pure faith in the truth, gets up with his disciples and sets out. Along the way, a woman, with the very pure faith in Christ, approaches him, touches the hem of his cloak and heals from her incurable disease. Jesus wants everyone to know the truth of the woman’s faith. It can be of help to every other man and every other woman. The faith of this woman gives a new truth to Christ the Lord. You can even not ask with your mouth. It is enough that Jesus be touched with faith. We receive Jesus in the Eucharist. We receive him without faith and the incurable disease of our sin remains forever in our soul, in our spirit and in our body. Instead, if we touched Jesus according to the truth of the most pure faith, we would also be freed from the most persistent and most incurable evils. The woman teaches us that each of us should offer the world a new truth of Lord Jesus. His truth is infinite, eternal, divine and human. Believing in Christ in a new way and pointing him out to the whole world could help every man to discover how much he too is in need of Christ Jesus. In the Holy Spirit this can also be done. Indeed, it must be done.

While he was saying these things to them, an official came forward, knelt down before him, and said, “My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.” Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples. A woman suffering haemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured. When Jesus arrived at the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion, he said, “Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they ridiculed him. When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand, and the little girl arose. And news of this spread throughout all that land.

Jesus arrives into the house of the chief and sees the flutists and the crowd in agitation. He sends everyone away, saying that the girl is not dead, but she is sleeping. For this affirmation Jesus is mocked. It is thought that he does not distinguish a person that sleeps from someone that has died. The crowd is sent away. He enters, takes the hand of the girl and she gets up. For Jesus, death is not definitive. It is a moment of our existence. In the end, when he comes for the final judgment, he will call everyone from the tombs and will resuscitate us. But the Resurrection will not be the same for everyone. For those who did good, it will be of glory. For those who have done wrong, it will be condemnatory. Today it is this truth that has failed to the faith of the Christian. A faith without this truth is useless because one no longer works in view of the blessed and glorious resurrection. He abandons himself to sin and to every transgression.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints arrange that the Christian’s faith is perfect in every truth.