From the Gospel: Isn’t that touching?
Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel of the creation of Adam.
13th Sunday of ordinary time. Today’s readings: Wisdom 1,13-15; 2,23-24; 2 Corinthians 8,7.9.13-15; Mark 5,21-43 Touch has been beautifully depicted in various paintings, each of which brings a sense of warmth to the onlooker. Michelangelo’s magnificent fresco of the creation of Adam found in the Sistine Chapel captures that moment through a representation of God’s...