Carmelite homily for Wednesday, January 22, 2020 – Lectionary 313 (Mark 3:1-6)
There’s a line in Saint Therese of Lisieux’s autobiography, Story of a Soul, which describes her journey. She writes, “He transformed me in such a way that I no longer recognized myself.” I think that’s what’s happening in today’s Gospel. The man with the withered hand comes before everybody in the synagogue and Jesus heals him. And that’s what happens to all of us. Whatever the areas are that are withered, occluded, blocked, Jesus takes and heals us because it’s part of our transformation. Transformation so deep and so rich that we may not even recognize ourselves.