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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> our Gospel for today tells that wonderful story of the healing of the
paralytic. People gather by the dozens to hear Jesus, crowding around
the doorway of the house. They bring him a paralyzed man, and because
there is no way to get him through the door, they climb up on the roof
and open a space to lower him down.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">Can
I suggest a connection between this wonderful narrative and our present
evangelical situation? <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>There are an awful lot of Catholics who are
paralyzed, unable to move, frozen</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>in regard to Christ and the Church. </b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">This </span>might be from doubt, from fear, from anger, from old resentment,
from ignorance, or from self-reproach.</b></span> Some of these reasons might be
good; some might be bad.<br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Your
job, as a believer, is to bring them to Christ. How? A word of
encouragement, a challenge, an explanation, a word of forgiveness, a
note, a phone call.</b></span> We notice <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>the wonderful urgency of these people as
they
bring the sick man to Jesus.</b></span> Do we feel the same urgency within his
mystical body today?</span></span></div>
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