5th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1 K 8:1–7, 9–13
Gospel: Mk 6:53–56
Having crossed the lake, they came ashore at Gennesaret where they tied up the boat. As soon as they landed, people recognized Jesus and ran to spread the news throughout the countryside. Wherever he was they brought to him the sick lying on their mats. And wherever he went, to villages, towns or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplace and begged him to let them touch just the fringe of his cloak. And all who touched him were cured.

Commentary
“People recognized Jesus at once. So they ran throughout the whole region and wherever they heard he was, they brought to him the sick lying on their mats.”

To be recognized
for doing good works
is the life purpose
of every follower of Jesus,
both then and now.

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