"...begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed."
Below in brackets is a summary of exposition by Msgr Guardini. I thought it beneficial and inspiring.
{The sense of touch is a powerful mechanism by which we communicate and interact. In our hands, every slightest feeling-pleasure, surprise, suspense-shows forth. A quick lifting of the hand or the flicker of the finger speaks volumes.
The hand is a strong tool for work, a ready weapon for attack and defense but also with its delicate structure of its network of innumerable nerves, it is adaptable, flexible, and highly sensitive. It is an organ of receptivity an organ by which we welcome that which comes from outside ourselves; it is also a organ by which we resistant and build a wall.
Our hands are most expressive in prayer. As we open our palms to the heaven we open our life to God. We can feel the power flow from heaven to earth through our hands into our very life.
The language of the hands express greatness and beauty. Perhaps God has given us our hands in order to carry our souls in them.}
Sometimes our hands can say to God better than what our lips attempt; when our words get clumsy it is our hands reaching out that say what we intend and mean what we say.
As hands reached out to Jesus in today's gospel, do they not say clearly, express precisely what the human heart has longed for, to be near, to draw close, to be intimate with God.
Like the people in the gospel, may our hands do our talking to day and perhaps we may discover the presence of God just around the corner, right in our living room, sitting next to us one the couch, holding our hands in his.
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