June 30, 2021

Faith. How do we describe it? The Gospel story is quite clear that faith is not the blind following of accepted social or religious practices. Mark tells us that Jesus is ignoring important cultural mores of the day. A bleeding woman would have been unclean, and unable to enter the temple or participate in society. Touching a person who is dead would also have been considered unclean, and yet Jesus took the hand of Jairus’ daughter.