Resignation to death could have been a common malaise during Jesus’ era. Jesus lived in a time and place when the majority of people died young, their lives cut short. One such youth whom Jesus encounters is a child of twelve deeply loved by her father Jairus. She is stricken and death lurks. But…
The Gospels record healing as a life-giving power Jesus shared with people. Among the people with whom he shared his healing power was a young man, the only son of a widow from Nain. As this Sunday’s Gospel relates, the young man had died. Additional Gospel stories of people who died and were healed…