Reading First Gen 8: 6-13.20-22
After forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark. Then he sent out a raven; and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the earth. But the dove did not get a foothold legs and he returned back to get Noah into the ark, because of all the earth, there is still water; and Noah reached out and caught the bird and brought it into the ark. He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove from the ark; towards the evening the dove returned to get Noah, and carrying in its beak a fresh olive leaf. Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Furthermore waited another seven days and then sent out the dove, but the bird was not returned to him. In the six hundred years, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water was dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and look around; that the surface of the ground was dry.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord; of every clean animal and of every clean bird took some tail, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. When the Lord smelt fragrant offering it, the Lord spake in his heart: "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth, and I will not destroy again every living creature as I have done. While the earth still, will not cease sowing season and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night. "
Psalm Ps 116: 12-13.14-15.18-19
How will repay to the Lord all the good things upon me?
I will raise the cup of salvation, and will call on the name of the Lord, will pay my vows to the Lord in front of all his people.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem! Hallelujah!
Gospel reading Mark 8: 22-26
One day Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida. Some people brought to him a blind man, and they begged him to touch him. Jesus then took the blind man and led him out of the village.
Then he spat in the eye of the blind, and put a hand on it. He asked, "Do you see anything?" The man looked up and said,
"I see people! I see them walking around, but it seems like trees walking." He then placed his hands on the man's eyes again. Then that person seriously look and has been healed, so that he could see everything clearly. And Jesus sent him home to his house and said, "Do not go into the village!"
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.
Devotional.
Everyone has pain, whether sick or unwell. Human healing process of the pain can also be slow or fast. Today's Gospel tells of Jesus healing the blind man at Bethsaida. How Jesus healed the blind man terkasan somewhat unique, where Jesus spat on his eyes and put his hand over it, and asked, "Do you see anything? "The blind man said," I see men, for I see them walking the street, but it seems like the trees "Then he again laid his hands on the man's eyes so he can see clearly. Why did not Jesus heal her just once? Why should two times when He has tremendous power. The answer is that Jesus wanted to teach us that everything requires a process. To achieve something that is expected, one must step over step by step.
In this life we often make mistakes or sins that make our fellow wounded hearts and keep us from God and others. But God will never abandon us, God wants to heal us from sin and guilt that we have done it. God does not directly heal the whole. God allowed us to come to Him, repented of sin and confess before him, through the Sacrament of Repentance. Repentance Sacrament because it could be seen as an initial stage for our return improve our relationships with God, others, and creation. Let us come to Jesus graces through the stages of healing intention, regret, and admit mistakes, so that we are freed and cured.
Prayer.
Oh God heal us from all kinds of diseases and the mistakes we have made and we've experienced in life. Amen.
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