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One Minute Reflection – 1 July – The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B – Today’s Gospel Mark 5:21-43

“I say to you, arise!”...Mark 5:41

REFLECTION – “Then He entered the room where the child was and, taking the child by the hand, said to her:  ‘Talitha koum’.   The girl arose immediately and walked around.’  Let us desire Jesus to touch us and at once we too will walk.   Whether we are paralysed or whether we commit wrongful deeds, we find ourselves unable to walk.   Perhaps we are lying on the bed of our sins as if on a real bed.   No sooner will Jesus touch us than we shall at once be healed.”…St Jerome (347-420) Father & Doctor

PRAYER – “By Your grace, Lord, touch our hands, we who are lying down;   raise us up from the bed of our sins;  cause us to walk.   When we have walked, give the command that we should be given something to eat.   Lying down, we cannot walk and, if we are not upright, we cannot receive the body of Christ, to whom be glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, for endless ages. Amen”…St Jerome (347-420) Father & Doctor