This reflection is based on Matthew 15:21-28.
Today’s Gospel story offers us an untypical portrait of Jesus–and an unwelcome one as well. A distressed Canaanite woman approaches the Lord and requests His healing for her sick daughter. “Have pity on me!” she cried out. “My daughter is tormented by a demon.”
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