[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

 *Friends, the centerpiece of today’s Gospel is Jesus healing the
hemorrhaging woman. Having a flow of blood for twelve years meant that
anyone with whom she came in contact would be considered unclean. *She
couldn’t, in any meaningful sense, participate in the ordinary life of her
society.



* The woman touches Jesus—and how radical and dangerous an act this was,
since it should have rendered Jesus unclean. But so great is her faith,
that her touch, instead, renders her clean. Jesus effectively restores her
to full participation in her community. But what is perhaps most important
is this: Jesus implicitly puts an end to the ritual code of the book of
Leviticus. What he implies is that the identity of the new Israel, the
Church, would not be through ritual behaviors but through imitation of him.
Notice, please, how central this is in the New Testament. We hear elsewhere
in the Gospels that Jesus declares all foods clean, and throughout the
letters of Paul we hear a steady polemic against the Law. All of this is
meant to show that Jesus is at the center of the new community.*
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