{"id":2640,"date":"2018-01-30T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T21:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:53:28","slug":"4th-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2018\/01\/30\/4th-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, Year II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel Jairus and the woman suffering from a hemorrhage teach us that if we take a risk and believe in Christ, things will exceed our expectations. Jairus risked his reputation as a synagogue official, trusting in a Rabbi with miraculous powers with the hope of healing his dying daughter. The ailing woman risked being the fool when she believed she could touch Our Lord&#8217;s cloak and receive healing unseen. Her healing and encounter with Our Lord were just in time to give Jairus the encouragement he needed when news reached him of his daughter&#8217;s death. Jairus still believed in Our Lord, even when he realized he was now asking for something much greater.<\/p>\n<p>The mourners for the little girl were scornful and incredulous when Our Lord said the girl was only sleeping. As Christians we know Our Lord was saying something much deeper: death is simply a &#8220;falling asleep,&#8221; as Paul would later say in his letters, awaiting the Resurrection from the dead. Jairus for his faith didn&#8217;t have to wait until the life of the world to come to be with his daughter again.<\/p>\n<p>The hemmorraghic woman didn&#8217;t expect she&#8217;d have to explain herself in front of the crowds. Jairus didn&#8217;t expect that he&#8217;d be asking for his girl to return to life. They took a risk and had faith in Our Lord, and he blessed them beyond their expectations. Let&#8217;s also take a risk of faith. We won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a02 Samuel 18:9\u201310, 14b, 24\u201325a, 30\u201319:3; Psalm 86:1\u20136; Mark 5:21\u201343.<\/em> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/07\/06\/14th-week-in-ordinary-time-monday\/\">14th Week in Ordinary Time, Monday<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/06\/28\/13th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-cycle-b\/\">13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.paxtv.org\/toques\/images\/04_07_2016_11.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s Gospel Jairus and the woman suffering from a hemorrhage teach us that if we take a risk and believe in Christ, things will exceed our expectations. Jairus risked his reputation as a synagogue official, trusting in a Rabbi with miraculous powers with the hope of healing his dying daughter. The ailing woman risked &#8230; <a title=\"4th Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, Year II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2018\/01\/30\/4th-week-in-ordinary-time-monday-year-ii\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4th Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, Year II\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,45,13,146],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fourth-week","tag-ordinary-time","tag-tuesday","tag-year-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-GA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}