Monday, July 4, 2022

Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

(Hosea 2:16.17c-18.21-22; Matthew 9:18-26)

Today’s gospel speaks of freedom.  It shows Jesus freeing a woman from a malady she bore for twelve years.  More profoundly, it intimates how people who believe in him will be freed from the tyranny of death.

Like the ruler’s daughter, we all will die.  But death will not necessarily have the last word.  If we place our faith in Jesus, we will conquer death.  In the reading the girl’s father asks Jesus’ help on her behalf.  Jesus then raises her from the sleep of death.  Likewise, we will rise from death for having been true to Jesus.

Today the United States celebrates its freedom from the tyrannical rule of the British king.  After independence, the founding fathers proceeded to declare freedom of religion.  All Americans have the option to place their faith in Jesus.  He magnifies the liberties by giving freedom from the dominance of sin and the tyranny of death.


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