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To relate to the saints as neither wonderworkers nor exemplars but primarily as "friends of God and prophets" who are our companions in memory and hope; to honor Mary neither as perfect exception nor as exemplary model but primarily as "truly our sister" who encourages our struggle: such paradigms contain seeds of fruitfulness for the future life of the Christian community. Mark does it by portraying him as not simply a wonderworker but a person who performs deeds of power (dynameis) that represent a healing of the disorder in the cosmos and in human nature. Sent to the market to buy dinner, Matilda is conned by the rapacious fishmonger into purchasing rotten fish; she is also fooled by Master Theobald the Wonderworker, the town's leading physician, whose impressive outer dress and demeanor cause her to credit him with undue inner worth. |
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