Healing the sick

Saint Matthew - Chapter 14

Christ healing the sick. J-J Tissot

[35] Et cum cognovissent eum viri loci illius, miserunt in universam regionem illam, et obtulerunt ei omnes male habentes :
And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent into all that country, and brought to him all that were diseased.

[36] et rogabant eum ut vel fimbriam vestimenti ejus tangerent. Et quicumque tetigerunt, salvi facti sunt.
And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment. And as many as touched, were made whole.



And when they knew Him, &c. Instead of hem of His garment, the Syriac has wing, the Arabic, extremity of his garment. The flesh of Christ was so efficacious and health-giving as to communicate its virtue to the garment by which it was covered. From hence S. Chrysostom reasons, that if those who only touched the hem or fringe of Christ’s garment were healed, how much more those who touch whole Christ, yea feed upon Him in the Eucharist. What medicine can be more healing than the flesh and Deity of Christ. S. Gregory Nazianzen relates that his sister Gorgonia was healed of a mortal disease by touching the Eucharist. (Orat. 8).

Saint Luke - Chapter 6

[19] Et omnis turba quaerebat eum tangere : quia virtus de illo exibat, et sanabat omnes.
And all the multitude sought to touch him, for virtue went out from him, and healed all.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam