The Gospels are filled with accounts of
Jesus’ healing encounters with those whose spiritual energies are unable to
flow. Much of Jesus’ ministry consisted
in teaching people how to see (the kingdom of God), how to hear (the voice of
the Spirit), how to walk (overcoming the paralysis of the heart), and how to be
free of themselves to as to discover God.
Jesus was referred to in the early Church
as the Savior (salvator in Latin).
The term speaks of the one who brings healing – indeed, our world salve
is closely related to salvus, meaning health. When the soul is healthy,
it is in a living relationship with God.
When the soul is sick, the entire person becomes ill, because all flows
from and depends upon the dynamic encounter with the source of being and life
who is God.
We heal the soul by bringing to bear the salvator,
the healer, the one who in his person reconciled us with God and opened the
soul to the divine power.
--Bishop Robert
Barron
Image source: Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi, ca. 1500, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Mundi_(Leonardo)#/media/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci,_Salvator_Mundi,_c.1500,_oil_on_walnut_(framed).jpg
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