Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24
This reading has a reminder to us of something not often heard in our society today. God created all things to have life.
God did not create death. He did create Lucifer but the devil turned away and chose evil out of envy. He did not want to bow down to "man" because he felt he was superior. Jesus becoming man made Lucifer angry. We should learn from this that if you have too much pride you will end up in a hot spot. (vs. 24)
2 Corinthians 8: 7,9, 13-15
St. Paul is telling us to share what we have with others who need it. Christ shared what he had. He gave up his riches as God to give us those riches through Himself. St. John Chryststom says, "For had he (Jesus) not become poor, you could not have become rich. By a miracle which men cannot understand, poverty has produced these riches- the knowledge of God and godliness, liberation from sin, justification, sanctification, the countless good things which he has bestowed on us and will bestow on us in the future." (Homily on 2 Cor., 17)
Our generosity should be like that from God to the Israelites when they were gathering manna as the example that St. Paul gives at the end of the reading. (Ex. 16:18)
Mark 5:21-43
In this story we see that it is mainly about faith, because Jarius had faith that Jesus could heal his daughter and the lady with the hemorrhage had faith that even if she just touched Jesus' cloak she would be healed. But there was a problem in the faith of the people who were wailing for Jarius' daughter. For even after all the miracles Jesus had performed, they ridiculed him for saying that she was just asleep. Jesus says to the daughter not to tell anyone what he had done for him. The reason he says this is because the time for him to be revealed to the world had not yet come. The moral of this story is that we need faith to bring us closer to Jesus.
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