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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> the
centerpiece of our Gospel today is the story of the hemorrhaging woman.</b></span>
To get at the power of the Gospel, we have to reacquaint ourselves with
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>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
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">extremely difficult situations</span>.</b></span></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"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Having
a flow of blood for twelve years meant <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">that<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> for that entire period </span>the
woman in our
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">Gospel</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">was</span> a virtual pariah</b></span>. Anyone with whom she came in contact would
be considered unclean. <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>She<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> couldn’t </span>participate in the ordinary life of
her society.</b></span></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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>She touches Jesus </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>and should have rendered <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">him </span>unclean</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But so great is<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> her</span> faith, that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">her</span> touch, instead, renders </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><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></b></span><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span>clean.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus effectively restores <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">her </span>to full participation in her community.</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><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></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">The
most important outcome is this: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus implicitly puts an end to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the
ritual code of Leviticus.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The identity of the new Israel, the Church,
would not be <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">through ritual behaviors </span>but <u>through imitation of him.</u></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></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></div>
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