Some of Our Lord's miracles
were dramatic. Like when he halted a young man's funeral procession to touch
the corpse, and give the boy back to his mother. Then, it was great the way he cured
a man who had for years tried to make it into a pool for a cure. But, the cure
in today's Gospel was the most fun for us to picture.
The pals of a paralyzed boy, hearing
about Jesus doing miracles, and hearing that Jesus was to be in Capernaum's synagogue
Saturday, fitted him onto a stretcher they could carry. But on arriving at
Capernaum's synagogue Saturday, they saw people crowded four
deep around the synagogue.
But, being adventurous young
men, they used ropes to hoist the stretcher on to the roof, and they went on to
pick away roofing tiles until they had opened the ceiling in front of where
Jesus was speaking. Then, they lowered the stretcher down to dangle right in
front of Jesus.
Our Lord, always cool, spoke
to the young man, saying, "Your sins are forgiven."
The boy who had agonized over
the way his sins had brought on the
paralysis, was delighted over having his guilt removed. Jesus, pleased at the
boy's reaction, and contemptuous over the doubts of his enemies, told the boy
to walk.
Wha a great scene: watchng
the boy roll up his bedding, and making his way out throug the crowd!
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