'Give her something to eat.' Sunday Reflections, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre, Paris [ Wikipedia ; photo ] Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Raising of the Daughter of Jairus Paolo Veronese [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel Mark 5:21-43 [or 5:21-24, 35b-43] (English Standard Version) When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” And he went with him. [And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood f