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In remembering President’s Day, believers are called to remember that every president is also a simple human being, created and loved by our Father in heaven. The president is as much in need of our prayer, our acceptance and our love as any other member of God’s family. Today and every day remember in your prayers the President and all our political leaders, that God’s work may be made manifest in our country.
In the verses before today’s Gospel, Jesus has just chosen his twelve apostles and is coming down the mountain with them. Accompanying them is a large crowd. The people are all jostling to get close to Jesus because they have heard of his miraculous powers. Some have already been cured of unclean spirits and diseases and the rest want to touch him and be healed. Never has there been a more captive audience. It is the perfect setting for one of Jesus’ most often-quoted and charismatic sermons.