July 6
Our Lady D’Iron
Dunois, France (1631)
Gospel: Matthew 9:18-26
 |
| Image created using Google AI Image Creator. |
In today’s
Gospel, there are two healings stacked inside one another. A synagogue official
begs Jesus to raise his daughter, and on the way, a woman who has bled for
twelve years touches the edge of His cloak and is healed before He even turns
around. Two different kinds of desperate faith, both rewarded, neither one shy about
reaching for Him.
Notice that
neither person waited for ideal conditions. The official interrupted Jesus
mid-crowd with a request that sounded almost impossible. The woman didn’t ask
permission; she just reached, certain that even the smallest contact with Him
would be enough. We often wait for the right moment to bring God our biggest
needs. These two didn’t wait for anything.
Don’t wait for
a better moment to reach for Him either. You don’t need the perfect prayer, the
right words, or a clean conscience before you ask. A synagogue official with a
dying daughter and a woman who’d exhausted every doctor both teach the same
lesson: desperate, unpolished faith reaches anyway, and Jesus has never once
turned away from a hand stretched toward Him.
Today, the
Marian calendar acknowledges Our Lady D’Iron in Dunois, France, 1631. Our
Lady’s own faith was unpolished in the best sense, a teenage girl saying yes to
something she couldn’t fully understand, simply because she trusted the One
asking. Something to think about as you go through your day: What’s the
desperate, unpolished prayer that you have been holding back on, because it
doesn’t feel proper enough to say or ask? Is it someone’s love you seek, or
maybe a friendship that has fallen to the wayside, or a son or daughter's love
you want so desperately restored?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
Freely given.
Freely shared.
