Father Snort

Brad Sullivan Proper 8, Year B June 28, 2015 Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX Mark 4:35-41 Jesus healed a woman of her hemorrhage without even meaning to. She had been suffering from this hemorrhage for 12 years, was made worse by the doctors, and then she heard about Jesus. As he passed by her in a crowd, she touched Jesus’ garment, and immediately she was healed. “Your faith has made you well,” Jesus said, “go in peace.” Peace is, I believe, the key to her healing. The hemorrhage was obviously not bad enough to kill her. She had been living with this hemorrhage, bleeding for 12 years. The hemorrhage wasn’t killing her, but it was keeping her from living. Because she was bleeding, she was unclean. Anyone who touched her, or anything on which she sat was also unclean. She couldn’t enter the temple, and couldn’t live a normal life. I don’t know for su