In his first nine chapters Mark describes Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law, a leper and ten other sick individuals. He tells us also that Jesus healed a lot more than that. Mark wants to emphasize that care of the sick is a priority of Jesus.
When Jesus no longer walked the earth he wanted that care for the sick to be continued by his followers, not just as individuals but as a community. Through twenty centuries we, as a church, have been outstanding in our care for the sick. Don't you think Jesus would want our country to care for as many sick as possible?
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Father Paul,
Your thought could be expanded to include helping the poor as well as the sick, and it reminds me of a Stephen Colbert quote from years back:
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
Thank You!
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