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the centerpiece of today’s Gospel is Jesus healing the hemorrhaging
woman</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Having a flow of blood
for twelve years meant that anyone with whom she came in contact would
be considered unclean. She couldn’t,</b></span> in any meaningful sense,
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>participate in the ordinary life of her society.</b></span></span><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br></b><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"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The
woman touches Jesus—and how radical and dangerous an act this was,
since it should have rendered Jesus unclean</b>.</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But so great is her faith
that her touch, instead, renders </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">her</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> clean. Jesus effectively restores her to full participation in her community.</span></b></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"> </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">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. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>We hear elsewhere in the Gospels that Jesus
declares all foods clean, and throughout the letters of Paul
we hear a steady polemic against <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the Law</span>. </b></span>All of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>this is meant to show
that <u>Jesus is at the center of the new community.</u></b></span></span></b></span></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>
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