#thebleedingwoman

[anastpaul]

Thought for the Day – 1 July – The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B – Today’s Gospel Mark 5:21-43.

The woman healed and the girl raised, have some things in common:

they are female; they are both called daughter; and they are linked by the number twelve.

The number is a sign of the restoration of the twelve tribes of Israel at the end of time, a sign of the Messiah and the eschaton – the last things, the final event in the Divine plan.

Israel is also known as the daughter or even, the bride of God (Hos 2:19-21).

In these miracles today, Jesus shows that He has come to bring daughter Israel to health and full life.   The healings that connect these daughters of Israel are signs of the spiritual wholeness and the destruction of death that the Messiah brings.   And since we know that “God does not delight in the death of the living” (Wis 1:13), we know that new life for the restored people of Israel, was a sign of the offer extended to the whole world. Wherever death comes to destroy, faith in Christ’s power is sufficient, even unto death.

The divine power leaves Jesus in order to flow into us on the Cross and in the Eucharist.

“She touched the hem of His garment, she approached Him in a spirit of faith, she believed and she realised that she was cured… so we too, if we wish to be saved, should reach out in faith to touch the garment of Christ” ...St Ambrose (340-397 Father & Doctor), Expositio Evangelii sec. Lucam, VI, 56. 58.

(via Thought for the Day - 1 July - The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B - Today's Gospel Mark 5:21-43.)

[indiantiquest]

Reposted from @womenfromhistory - ~ Miracles of Jesus on women : Healing of the Bleeding Woman ~ Jesus healing the bleeding woman (or "woman with an issue of blood" and other variants) is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels (Matthew 9:20–22, Mark 5:25–34, Luke 8:43–48). This miracle immediately follows the exorcism at Gerasa and is combined with the miracle of the Daughter of Jairus. The incident occurred while Jesus was traveling to Jairus' house. The woman's condition, which is not clear, is translated as an "issue of blood" or "flux of blood". In scholarly language she is often referred to by the original New Testament Greek term as the haemorrhoissa ("bleeding woman"). Some scholars view it as menorrhagia. Because of the continual bleeding, the woman would have been continually regarded in Jewish law as a menstruating woman, and so she was ceremonially unclean. In order to be regarded as clean, the flow of blood would need to stop for at least 7 days. Because of the constant bleeding, this woman lived in a continual state of uncleanness which would have brought upon her social and religious isolation. Painting by Greg Olsen 🎨 #thebleedingwoman #jesus #bible #history #art #artlovers #arthistory #historyofart #painting #strongwomen #womenfromhistory - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/indiantiquest/p/BwJZy_lnlU6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zlx29gnk731x

[gypsyfriedsoul]

This has never felt more relevant. "Because she thought "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.' Jesus turned and saw her. 'Take heart, daughter,' he said, 'your faith has healed you'" #thebleedingwoman #daughterofGod #yourfaithhashealedyou