Jesus Cleanses a Leper

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Twelfth Week Of Ordinary Time Memorial: The First Martyrs of the Church In Rome Matthew 8: 1-4 In today’s gospel, Jesus encounters a leper who approaches him with confidence, humility, and reverence. During that time, lepers were considered ritually impure, and physical contact with them was […]

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The First Week Of Ordinary Time   Mark 1: 40-45 Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, let’s reflect on this. Are we willing to associate with the outcast, like Jesus? Leprosy was a feared disease, and lepers were thought to be the living dead. People […]

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday Of The First Week In Ordinary Time Mark 1:40-45 In the Gospel of Mark, we see right from the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, Healings and Miracles, its only the end of first chapter and we see Jesus moved with compassion raises the dead and Jesus Cleansing a Leper. […]

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday After Epiphany Luke 5:12-16 Continuing with the Theme of Epiphany Sunday, we see we are presented with an understanding. Jesus is the one who makes us clean! We are staying away from God because we have looked inward and looked with awkwardness what we have done to ourselves […]

Jesus Cleanses a Leper

Matthew 8:1-4   In his 3 years of public ministry, Jesus went about healing the deaf, dumb, blind, crippled and even the lepers. Leprosy was a dreaded disease and associated with the state of sinfulness, like a curse. The infected person would go through a lot of humiliation and was shunned by society. But the […]