IF I COULD TOUCH YOU (Gospel Reflection for Mark 5:21-43)

If I could touch you. I entitled this reflection based from the song "If I could touch you" by Bukas Palad Music Ministry. All of us encounter an "If I could touch you" moment especially if we have a loved one who is very far from us. We also say "If I could touch you" when we lost someone we love. The Gospel today focuses on two great faiths, the man with a sick daughter and the woman with hemorrhage. Faith is the main focus of our Gospel for this Sunday. Faith actually sustains us, it gives us life and hope during difficult moments in our life. Faith gives us the courage to face difficult situations in our life. Let us now reflect the faith of the two characters in this Gospel. First is the woman with the hemorrhage for twelve years. Hemorrhage is very dangerous condition because it is an internal bleeding. The woman's faith drove her to pass to the thick crowd following Jesus and hope with just one touch of Jesus' cloak she may be healed. We all have this kind of situation, we are sometimes prevented by a large crowds from going to Christ. That crowd is our problems, we tend to give up sometimes to the problems we encounter in life but the eagerness or zeal caused by our faith let's us push through and approach Jesus because He's the only source of our consolation. We bleed inside of us when we encounter problems but when we touch Jesus, our problems gradually disappears. We really touch Christ when we receive Holy Communion during Mass because we receive Him completely.

Second, the faith of the father who had a very ill daughter. As soon as Jesus arrives, he pleaded Him to heal the daughter but some said the girl had died. We encounter times when we say, we are dead because we lost hope. Yet inside, Jesus speaks to us and reiterates the words He said to the father of the girl, "Do not be afraid, just believe." Jesus strengthens us, He knows our weak points in life but gives us the courage to overcome those weaknesses. May we all be awaken by the faith in Christ and be not afraid for there is a God who listens as we believe in Him.