Jesus, the Remedy for Spiritual Death

Three times in the Gospels Jesus performs the spectacular miracle of raising from the dead. He raises the little daughter of Jairus, the widow's son at Nain, and, as we hear in today's gospel, Jesus's friend Lazarus. The Fathers of the Church saw these resurrections as Jesus's saving response to the spiritual death that is sin. In the little girl, they saw one who had just began to be touched by sin. In the young man, one who had begun to cling to sin more persistently. And in Lazarus, the powerlessness of one completely overwhelmed in their sins. And for each one, Jesus is the remedy. Let us let him be the remedy for our own sin this Lent!

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