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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Monday, July 9, 2018*
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Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 9:18-26






*Friends, the centerpiece of our Gospel today is the story of the
hemorrhaging woman. To get at the power of the Gospel, we have to
reacquaint ourselves with the Jewish attitudes regarding the clean and the
unclean. In the book of Leviticus we find carefully laid out prescriptions
dealing with animals, plants, foods, and situations that are unclean. These
prescriptions were meant to identify the Jewish people as a people. But
they had a rather severe downside, since they placed certain people in
extremely difficult situations. Having a flow of blood for twelve years
meant that for that entire period the woman in our Gospel was a virtual
pariah. Anyone with whom she came in contact would be considered unclean.
She couldn’t participate in the ordinary life of her society. She touches
Jesus and should have rendered him unclean. But so great is her faith, that
her touch, instead, renders her clean. Jesus effectively restores her to
full participation in her community. The most important outcome is this:
Jesus implicitly puts an end to the ritual code of Leviticus. The identity
of the new Israel, the Church, would not be through ritual behaviors but
through imitation of him.*
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