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Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,
since he lives forever to make intercession for them (Hebrews 7:25 - suggested memory verse).
Jesus is able to save us because he is not limited by his own sin. He is able to save us because he offers the true and acceptable sacrifice in the "true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up." Everything before this was earthly copy and foreshadowing. This is the fulfillment. Jesus is in heaven offering himself to the Father for us. Or, put another way, he takes us up into his eternal self-offering to the Father.
Jesus offers himself because he wants to to save us, not because he must. It is more than saving humanity generally. He wants to save us each personally from the things that specifically afflict us. His sacrifice does this precisely because it contains his sympathy for us, since he was afflicted just as we are, yet without sin. His sacrifice contains his perfect love of and obedience to the Father and also his perfect love for each created man and woman.
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
so that they would not crush him.
He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him.
Jesus comes to heal body and soul. He comes to make all things new. From heaven, before the Father, he offers all that is needed to bring about this healing. We as Church must now join and that offering and receive the renewal it brings. When, during mass, the priest says "Through him, with him, and in him" it is precisely this sacrifice which we, as the body of Christ, join in. In turn, the Spirit is poured out and the sacraments are unleashed. This should add great joy when the Great Amen resounds from the congregation. This is why Saint Jerome said that it resounded like thunder.
May all who seek you
exult and be glad in you,
And may those who love your salvation
say ever, "The LORD be glorified."
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