Tuesday, February 4 : Saint Ambrose

Before raising a dead young girl Jesus begins by healing the woman with an issue of blood so as to lead to faith. It is to teach you that he staunched the bleeding and healed that woman while making his way to the girl’s side. In the same way, it is in order to believe in our own eternal resurrection that we celebrate the Lord’s historical resurrection that followed his Passion… “Servants from the official arrived and said: ‘Do not trouble the teacher any longer’”: as yet they did not believe in Jesus’ resurrection, foretold in the Law and fulfilled in the Gospel. This was why, on arriving at the house, Jesus only took with him a few witnesses of the resurrection that was about to happen, not the large number who believed in the resurrection immediately. When Jesus declared: “The child is not dead, but sleeping”, the crowd “ridiculed him” because those who do not believe, mock. Let them mourn their dead, then, those who believe them to be dead! When we have faith in the resurrection it is not an end but a rest that we see in death… Then taking the child’s hand, Jesus healed her and gave her something to eat. There we see proof of life that no one might believe an illusion but reality. How happy was she whose hand Wisdom took like this! Please God it will take hold of my actions too, that righteousness may take my hand, that the Word may take my hand and lead me to the hidden place where he dwells. May he turn my mind away from error, bring back the one he is saving and command I be given something to eat, for the Word of God is bread from heaven (Jn 6,32). That is why this Wisdom, who has placed on the holy altar the divine food of his Body and his Blood, declares: “Come, eat of my bread; come, drink the wine I have prepared for you” (Prv 9,5).

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