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in our Gospel we see Jesus in action. </b><b>He is always hurrying from place
to place, on the go. Today Luke gives us a sort of "day in the life" of
Jesus. And it is quite a day!</b></span> Our Gospel opens <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>just after the dramatic
expulsion of a demon in the Capernaum synagogue. And after entering the
house of Simon, Jesus cures Peter’s mother-in-law, and then the entire
town comes to his door. He spends the whole evening curing presumably
hundreds who were
variously afflicted.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:normal;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">In
the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, in an attempt to
make Jesus more palatable to rationalists and "realists," theologians
put great stress on Jesus’ preaching, especially his ethical teaching.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:normal;font-family:georgia,"times new roman""> </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"">But this is not the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>that Luke presents.</b></span> Rather, he i<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>s a healer: <span style="color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:italic">S</span></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-style:italic;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">oter</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">, rendered in Latin as <span style="color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:italic">S</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:italic;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">alvator</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:normal;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">, which just means "the bearer of the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:italic;font-family:georgia,"times new roman"">salus</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:normal;font-family:georgia,"times new roman""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"
or health.</b></span> Jesus is portrayed as<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> a healer, a savior. </b></span>In him, divinity
and humanity have come together; <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>in him, the divine life and divine
power are breaking through</b></span>. God’s deepest intentions for his beloved
creatures appears—what God plans for us in the Kingdom to come is now
historically anticipated.</span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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