Sunday, July 6, 2014

7/8/2014 – Tuesday of the 14th week in Ordinary Time – Matthew 9:32-38

      If you look at what the Scripture scholars say about the miracle stories in the Gospel of Matthew, you will find that there are 10 different miracles that Jesus performed recorded in chapters 8 and 9 of that Gospel.   What are we to make of those miracle stories, particularly of the one we hear today, of the way Jesus drove out a demon from a man who was made mute.  Are there logical explanations for these miracles?  We can debate that topic for hours and still not come up with an answer.  The crowds did not know what to make of the miracles that they saw Jesus perform.  They said: “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”  Then the Pharisees respond by attacking Jesus, saying that it is by the Prince of Darkness that he is able to drive out those demons.  And perhaps there are miracles happening in our own life that we don’t want to recognize or that we just don’t know how to make sense out of them.  Jesus allowed the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and the mute to speak.  He gave the hungry food.  But it goes beyond that.   Jesus removed the blindness and the deafness and the close-mindedness that we harbor in our hearts.  He allows us to go beyond that demons and those barriers that are holding us back.  Perhaps those are the little miracles that are happening in our lives that we are unable to recognize.  And perhaps those miracles are not so little after all. 

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