By Fr. Justin Fulton
All of Jesus’ healings... lepers, the blind, the mute. Reaching out to the woman at the well. Forgiving sin. Going to the margins everywhere in the Gospel... It is all about reaching out to the isolated and outcast, healing, and bringing back the isolated to living in community.
Even Christ on the Cross… isolated and alone in society.
All of us are living it now. The Bible is indeed alive in our lives. All of us living isolated during this response to COVID-19.
Jesus’s Body—and His Mystical Body—Us, the Church—He is living, isolated in our isolation. His Body the people/the Church are continuing His work and bearing the suffering for this day, for the salvation of souls.
Perhaps it hurts... but it makes sense and it gives a sense of meaning. Like Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning”—we have to search and find meaning in our suffering in order to survive.
Jesus is alive... and we will survive. His Resurrection powers over any disease, infirmity, and death itself.
May we all find Christ’s light in the darkness. He is there in people coming together. He is there in people taking precautions to care about people they have never met. He is there in prayers and in more prayers going up. Christ the Healer works through His people, in doctors, nurses, in everyday genuine people.
He is there even in our isolation and suffering.
When we look at the world’s reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak with all of the quarantines, precautions, closings and everything else, in a poignant way we see that naturally—written in the heart of every human—is a desire to defend, sustain, protect, promote, and nurture life. Why is that? Because innately every human person is Pro-Life. It is written in our hearts by the Author of Life, God.
And who is Life? Jesus Christ—“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.” Written on the hearts of every human person is a natural attraction to He who is Life itself: Jesus Christ.
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God bless and be with you always. He is. Trust Him.
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