Today we heard how Jesus spent his time at the beginning of his ministry. He taught in the synagogues and healed people. In those days people sometimes thought that illness was caused by demons, which had to be cast out of the body.

Remember those recycled, plastic, painted bottles which we used to make our Christmas crib? Well, we had some left over, so our liturgy leaders asked the children to turn them into medicine bottles. We thought about the things we would like to put into them to make someone ill feel better.