Last Stronghold of the Devil: death (Year B)
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark: (Mk. 5: 21-43)
When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lake side. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.
Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him’ they were pressing all round him. Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years; after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without being any the better for it, in fact, she was getting worse.
She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his cloak. “If I can touch even his clothes,” she had told herself “I shall be well again.” And the source of the bleeding dried up instantly and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint.
