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CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of blind Bartimeus: And they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a very great crowd, Bartimeus, a blind man, the son of Timeus, was sitting by the wayside begging (St. Mark 10:46): * How Bartimeus begged the Lord: “Have mercy on me!” * How the Lord said: “See!” And he saw; * How, if I pray, the word of the Lord c...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the ten lepers: And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men that were lepers which stood afar off (St. Luke 17:12): * How the Lord, by the power of His word, healed the ten lepers who begged Him; * How the Lord can heal even me, spiritually and morally leprous, if I cry out to Him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the man ill with dropsy: And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy (St. Luke 14:2): * How the Lord touched the man with dropsy, and he was healed and went home; * How my soul—being under the burden of love for the body—is under the burden of dropsy; * How the Lord with one touch can heal the dropsy of my soul and free it from the e...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the deformed woman: And behold, there was a woman who for eighteen years had a sickness caused by a spirit; and she was bent over and utterly unable to look upwards (St. Luke 13:11): * How the Lord placed His hands on the deformed woman and the woman straightened up; * How my soul is deformed like the woman and is bent over to the ground; * Ho...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous catch of fish in the deep: But when He had ceased speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch” (St. Luke 5:4): * How the apostles went out into the deep and, with the blessing of the Lord, caught an abundance of fish; * How I am empty and hungry as long as I stand in the shallows of the senses and fish there for pow...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous recognition by the Elder Simeon the God-receiver: And he came by inspiration of the Spirit into the Temple. And when his parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the Law: (St. Luke 2:27): * How this holy elder recognized in the Spirit the helpless Child as Lord and Messiah, while the blinded scribes and priests did not...

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CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of Zacharias from dumbness: And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed and he began to speak, blessing God (St. Luke 1:64): * How Zacharias became dumb because of his disbelief of the angel of God; * How Zacharias spoke as soon as he fulfilled the command of the angel: And asking for a writing tablet, he wrote the words: “John is...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous dumbness of Zacharias the High Priest: And behold, you shall be dumb and unable to speak until the day when these things come to pass, because you have not believed my words which will be fulfilled in their proper time (St. Luke 1:20): * How Zacharias did not believe the angel of God that the aged womb of his wife [Elizabeth] could conceive and give birt...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the blind Bartimeus: And they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a very great crowd, Bartimeus, a blind man the son of Timeus, was sitting by the wayside begging (St. Mark 10:46): * How Bartimeus cried out to the Lord with faith for healing, and the Lord healed him; * How even I, blinded in soul, sit by the r...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous withering of the unfruitful fig tree: And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he came up to it and found nothing on it but leaves; and He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you henceforth forever!” And immediately the fig tree withered up (St. Matthew 21:19): * How the Lord cursed the fig tree that had many leaves but no fruit, and the fig tree withe...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the two blind men: And behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, heard that Jesus was passing by, and cried out, saying: “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” (St. Matthew 20:30): * How the two blind men cried out to the Lord: Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!; * How the merciful Lord touched their eyes and they saw; * How I also am...

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CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the young man whom the devil tormented, at times throwing him into the fire and at times into the water: Lord, have pity on my son: for he is a lunatic and suffers severely; for often times he falls into the fire and often times into the water (St. Matthew 17:14): * How the Lord rebuked the devil, and the young man was made whole; * How the ev...

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CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous Transfiguration of the Lord Jesus: And after six days Jesus took Peter, James and John his brother and brought them up into a high mountain apart. And was transfigured before them” (St. Matthew 17:1-2): * How the face of the transfigured Lord shone as the sun; * How even I, although darkened by sin, can shine by Christ’s power and grace with the original...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan: And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cried out unto Him saying: “Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil” (St. Matthew 15:22): * How the woman of Canaan persistently and repeatedly implored the Lord to save her daughter from the devil...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of many who were sick: And (they) besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole (St. Matthew 14:36): * How many who were sick only touched the hem of the Lord’s garment and were made whole; * How my soul can be healed if I touch His Body and Blood, as the physical garment of His D...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the Lord’s miraculous walking on the water as though on dry land: But in the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them walking upon the sea (St. Matthew 14:25): * How the Lord, walking upon the water, called to Peter: “Come!” (St. Matthew 14:29), and Peter set out, but because of his weak faith began to sink; * How the Lord also calls me to walk over the waters and...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the Lord’s miraculous walking on water as on dry land: And when the apostles saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying: ‘It is a spirit and they cried out in fear’ (St. Matthew 14:25): * How the boat with the disciples was in danger on the waves of the sea at night, and how the Lord, seeing this, hastened to their help; * How I too am often in trouble from...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous multiplying of the bread in the wilderness: And when it was evening, his disciples came to Him saying: This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals (St. Matthew 14:15): * How the Lord fed five thousand people with the five blessed loaves; * How He is that Living...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the blind and dumb man: Then was brought to Him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb: and He healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw (St. Matthew 12:22): * How the Lord healed the man who was blind and dumb; * How the Lord can instantly heal even my soul, blind and dumb because of my remoteness from Christ, only i...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the dumb and possessed man: As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a dumb man possessed with a devil (St. Matthew 9:32): * How the Lord cast the devil out of him and the dumb man spoke; * How the devil, with all his power, tries to make my soul dumb so that it does not glorify the Lord; * How the Lord, if I so desire, can cast the uncle...

CONTEMPLATION To contemplate the miraculous healing of the two blind men: As Jesus moved on from there, two blind men came after Him crying out, ‘Son of David, have pity on us’ (St. Matthew 9:27): * How the blind men cried out to the Lord to open their eyes; * How the Lord touched their eyes and did unto them according to their faith, and they saw; * How the Lord can touch my blind soul and restor...