Reflections on Scripture • 07-06-23 - Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Jul 6, 2023 · 6m

Gospel Matthew 9:1-8

After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came

into his own town. And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Courage, child, your sins are forgiven." At that, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming." Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, "Why do you harbor evil thoughts? Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"– he then said to the…