The reverent touch – By Fr Dimitrios Bokustranslated

THE FLEXIBLE TOUCH By Fr Dimitrios Bokus

The sympathizing bleeding woman, a desperate being who based her last hope on Christ and was not denied, continues to inspire us through time and is a type and underline for our own path and effort to meet and have a right relationship with Christ (Sunday Luke 7).

What was special about the bleeding woman?

Approach Christ in a unique way. Completely secretly. No claims. Without the crowd that crowded around Christ, to perceive anything. Taking into account, without the innkeeper of course, that Christ's attention will also be diverted. Fully aware that she is unworthy to stand before him and present her request for healing. But also with fear for the people around her. He shouldn't have been among them. She was unclean according to their law, because of her peculiar disease (a twelve-year unceasing menstruation).

So with such fear in her, she approached Christ unnoticed, a woman supposedly like all the others. And she discreetly laid her hand not on the body of Christ, she would never have dared to do such a thing, but on the hem of his garment. On the edge of his garment, which…