Daily Gospel Reflection for July 5, 2023

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Matthew 8:28-34

Jesus is powerful. He heals everything. Even demons listen to Him.

The world is sick. It’s easy to feel discouraged seeing all the suffering. So many teenagers and young adults struggle with anxiety and depression, missing semesters of high school and college in order to get healthy. In some ways it’s not surprising. Our society is, like Ozzy Osborne said, “going off the rails on a crazy train.”

Jesus is powerful. He heals everything. Even demons listen to Him. The Gospels are filled with accounts of Jesus healing. Our world, particularly our young people, are in need of His healing. It comes first from faith but also from an understanding of our human anthropology and what it is to be human, made in God’s image, man or woman, beloved child of God.

God sent his Son to heal a broken world. The world is still broken and his Son is still here. He’s waiting in every tabernacle in every Catholic church. He is here to heal. He is here to help us. We cannot make sense of the insensible, but we can find peace in a disrupted world by keeping our gaze fixed on the One Who saves: the Divine Physician.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by what I see happening, but faith in my loving heavenly Father and His Son reminds me that Jesus is here and He heals. Nothing is so bad that He can’t fix it. This is when I find great comfort in our powerful Savior.

Jesus already won the war. We know He is victorious and we are on His team. All we need to do until we get to heaven is allow Him to be the center of our lives and share His healing grace. He is so good.

Ponder:

Where do you need Jesus's healing?

Pray:

Jesus, I believe You heal and help those who ask. I offer You my pain and struggles and believe that You will heal me.

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