DAILY DEVOTIONAL, (TUESDAY 31 JANUARY 2017)

Reading the Liturgy Tuesday, January 31, 2017

PW S. John Bosko, Imam

First Reading Heb 12: 1-4

Brethren, we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin

which so easily ensnares us, and run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus. It was he who led us in the faith, and he who brought it to the perfection of our faith! Despising the shame he endured the cross for the joy set before Him, who now sits at the right hand of God's throne. Remember Jesus, alone endure remonstrance against himself, denials coming from the sinners. Do not become weary and lose heart, for in struggling against sin is not the point of bloodshed.

Thus saith the Lord.

Psalm Ps 22: 26b-27.28.30.31-32

People who seek you, O Lord, will praise you.

* I will pay my vows before those who fear God. Poor people will eat until you are full, those who seek the Lord will praise Him;

let their hearts live forever!

* All the ends of the earth will be aware, then turned to the Lord; any clumps nations shall worship before him. Yes, to him shall bow down: all the proud of the earth, in His presence will surrender all those who have returned to the fold of earth.

* And I will live for the Lord, my granddaughter children will serve Him.

They will recount the matters of the Lord to the coming generation, and said that his justice to the people who will be born later.

All that has been done by the Lord.

Introduction to the Gospel of Matthew 8:17

Jesus took our infirmities and bore our diseases.

Gospel reading Mark 5: 21-43

On one occasion, after Jesus had crossed by boat, a large crowd gathered around him. When Jesus was still on the lake shore. And behold, a ruler of the synagogue named Jairus. When she saw Jesus, Jairus fell down at his feet. With so she pleaded with Him, "My daughter was sick, near death. Come presumably, and put thy hand upon it, so that he survived and stay alive." So Jesus went with him. The crowds flocked followed him and pressed around him. Is there a woman who had twelve years to bleeding. It has been repeated many physicians, to drop it all there is to it; but did not do good, quite the opposite: the situation is getting worse.

He had already heard the news about Jesus. So in the midst of the crowd she came up behind him and touched his cloak. For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."

Indeed, once the bleeding stopped and she felt in her body has been recovered from the disease. At that time Jesus also know that there is power coming out of himself, and he turned in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples answered, "You see for themselves how these people jostling near you! How can you say, 'Who touched me?" Then he looked around to see who had done it. Then the woman's fear and trembling, since he knew what had happened to her. So he came and fell down before him. Sincerely he tell everything to Jesus. Jesus said to her,

"Hi, My child, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed of your disease!"

While he was still speaking, people from the family of the head of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead! What else you need for troublesome Master?" But Jesus did not heed their words

and said to the synagogue official, "Do not be afraid, only believe!"

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. And they came to the house of the synagogue, and there Jesus saw all the fuss, crying and wailing. After sign in, Jesus said to the people, "Why are you commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping!" But they laughed at him. So Jesus told all the people that came out. Then he brought the father and mother of the child, and they were together with Jesus into the boy's room. Then held him by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha kum," which means: "Son, I tell you, get up!" Immediately the child stood up and running, because the age is twelve years old. Everyone present was amazed. With so Jesus told them,Lest anyone to know it, and he told them to give her something to eat.

Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Devotional.

When humans sick, the first thing to do was find a cure or treatment to the doctor. He will try to find the best drug or the best doctor in order to get relief. If all the effort that does not work, many people actually look for a shaman. and if help from shamans did not work well, then people seek God .It is an action that is not in accordance with God's will. Human action is the same as the act of a woman in the Gospel today ini.Perempuan suffered a hemorrhage for twelve years. She had gone to many doctors, but he did not recover as well. All the treasures he had already gone to have kesembuhanDia was desperate with all that he did it but when his heart was open to the healing touch of Jesus' hands happened to him, he healed just by touching the cloak of Jesus.

Very often people are less followed and the God in every effort and his work, Many people when starting a business or find a cure does not ask for help from God. But when that did not work properly, then they look for the Lord, but should is that we need to involve God in all our efforts. When we find a cure for pain, did we have to see a doctor but at the same time, we must also invoke God's help so that our efforts are blessed and His blessing, So should not only remember God when we can not do anything else but keep in mind God each of us to do something.

Not only to Jairus and the woman who had it, but ourselves also want to express the greatness of God and His power, the course may not merely through sickness, sometimes through the issue of weight problems for many years not finished. In these difficulties the Lord wants us like Jairus who by faith have become an intermediary for the healing grace for his beloved child, or like the woman who, in her illness would not give up and look for opportunities amid the crush of problems.

Prayer.

O God, do not let us get away from the Word that is always providing peace for us, let your Word alive in our hearts. Amen.