GOSPEL - Jn 5:1-16
There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?" The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.” He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’” They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?” The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.
O my God, I firmly believe that You are one God in three Persons: Father, Son,and Holy Spirit. I believe that Your divine Son became man and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because You have revealed them. In this faith I desire to live and die. Amen.
Tuesday is dedicated to the Holy Angels
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MiraclesToday's Gospel tells the story of one of the many healing miracles of Jesus.
Healing Miracles of JesusJohn 4 – Healing of the nobleman’s son
Matthew 8; Mark 1; Luke 4 – Cure of the mother-in-law of Peter
Matthew 8; Mark 1; Luke 5 – Cleansing of the leper
Matthew 9; Mark 2; Luke 5 – Healing of the paralytic
John 5 – Healing of the sick man at Bethesda
Matthew 12; Mark 3; Luke 6 – Restoring of the man with the withered hand
Matthew 8; Luke 7 – Healing of the centurion’s servant
Matthew 12; Luke 11 – Healing of one blind and dumb
Matthew 9; Mark 5; Luke 8 – Healing of the woman with an issue of blood
Matthew 9 – Opening of the eyes of two blind men
Matthew 9 – Cure of the dumb man
Mark 7 – Healing of the deaf and dumb man
Mark 8 – Opening the eyes of one blind at Bethsaida
Matthew 17; Mark 9; Luke 9 – Healing the lunatic child
John 9 – Opening the eyes of one born blind
Luke 13 – Restoring the woman with a spirit of infirmity
Luke 14 – Healing of the man with the dropsy
Luke 17 – Cleansing of the ten lepers
Matthew 20; Mark 10; Luke 18 – Opening the eyes of the blind man near Jericho
Luke 22 – Healing of Malchus’s ear