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Why did Jesus heal by touching the man with leprosy (a contageous disease)?

True mercy doesnt shun away from anything. If healing is needed...Mother Therese. Nothing scares him and we are called to dare face physical illnesses to bring to love one in need. Precaustions saved i mean talking about hospitals professionasl. Like with the man abandoned on the street how many were repelled by his sight? covered in blood and dust...maybe the Pharisees were not only afraid but also had a yacky reaction and did not stretch their hands in order to help (prayers for a student at my school who weeks ago was robbed and left beaten up on the ground by the thief...arms full of bruises nobody stopped to lifte her up...only a lady ages after sha had been laying on the ground of a city street). Also why arent people all the more repelled and willing to be cleansed from the scum of the soul? dirty wineskins

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: The Man With Leprosy

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What part of Jesus` "mission statement" (reading from Isaiah) has the most appeal to you?

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor: the power of the Word strikes...like the anointing of the priest the healing ointments are being i mean through his holy hands and mouth the Holy Spirit can descend and heal us too. Whatever the needed healing is. Its the how the haeling is passed on. And Mary comes to mind... the wasted precious oils. She was anointing the sacrificial victim who would take our place on the cross to redeem us from our sins. The real release the disciples, being men probably trsuting more in his manlike physical strenght qualities. Her made pure by his teachings and the strong deep faith that not only healed her before the actual crucifixion took place..but knowing how much healing he would bring to so many..that is why i feel, having fully learnt the Love Lesson, could find the strenght to prepare her beloved friend for that dreadful sacrifice. Ready, and willing, to be crucified with him and his mother. St Maximus the Confessor said:
"Therefore, in his natural capacity, the Saviour is distinguished as a human being, willing in a fleshly way the shrinking in the face of death together with the rest of the passions, showing the economy to be pure of any fantasy, and redeeming the nature from the passions to which it haas been condemned as a resault of sin.And again He shows His eager desire, putting death to death in the flesh, in order that He might show as a human being that what is natural is saved in himself, and that He might demonstrate, as God, the Father's great and ineffable purpose, fulfilled in the body. For it was not primarily in order to suffer, but in order to save, that He became a human being. Therefore He said, "Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not mine, but your will be done (compsoite of Matt 26:39 & Luke 22:42); showing, in the shrinking, the determination of the human will shaped and brought to be (in harmony with the Divine Will) in accordance with the interweaving natural logos with the mode of economy."
Opuscule 3, 48C
(in Maximus the Confessor, Andrew Louth, p194) [thank you my friend for the quote :)]

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

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What is authority, and how did Jesus demonstrate authority in his teachings and actions?

Few calm stemming from God words:the needed qualities of the Exorcist.

By: Alessandra Parrini
Category: Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit

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