First Reading: Leviticus 13: 1 - 2, 44 - 46
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
2 "When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,
44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
45 "The leper who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, `Unclean, unclean.'
46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp.
Psalms 32: 1 - 2, 5, 11
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
5 I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10: 31 - 33
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33 just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11: 1
1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Gospel Reading: Mark 1: 40 - 45
40 And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean."
41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I will; be clean."
42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
43 And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once,
44 and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people."
45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
Sermon/preaching/Homily - By Sr.Francine
Leprosy in the Bible was the most terrible scourge and most mysterious. The book of Leviticus devotes two entire chapters. The legislature is particularly concerned to identify the symptoms, not to cure the evil, what they were incapable at the time, but to exclude the patient from the community it endangers the sanctity. More than a disease, leprosy is an impurity, a divine punishment. Terrible is the condition of the leper in ancient times. Declared unclean, he withdrew apart to bewail himself, as one weeps over a dead man. It is excluded from all human relationships and all religious consolation. Over the centuries, some relaxations are well introduced. But it will take the arrival of Jesus treat to see the leper as a brother beloved. More. Jesus will be one of them, "... despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, like the lepers to be shunned ... struck by God and afflicted" (Isaiah 3.3 to 4).
Contemplate the story that gives us the gospel. Faced with this unfortunate, that violates the legal requirements to approach, Mark notes in Jesus a compassionate look. "Moved with pity," he wrote. What power in his home! Nothing repels him, nothing disgusts him, nothing scares him. If God is buried in the human pulp, if it is done close to the rotten flesh and heart rot is to radiate his holiness to purify its glowing purity.
Jesus dares more. There is this novel a poignant beauty of the Indian Arundhati Roy - "The God of Small Things" - which shows what the rejection of the pariah. Well Jesus was scandalous gesture of his hand to touch the untouchable. Ets he said: "I will; be clean." Behind the simplicity of the words of Mark let us guess the abyss of the Incarnation of the Son of God, the humanity of Jesus bearer of divine life. He is the great sacrament of the encounter between God and man, which all other sacraments derive their efficacy. He speaks and it touches: one thinks, the hand of God, in the fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the hand that communicates to the human spark of life. To communicate with the living dead that we are divine purification, the sacred humanity of Jesus touches us, touches us physically. We are immersed in the water of baptism, we eat the bread of the Eucharist, while those with the word body gestures, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, the Spirit," "Here the body of Christ. "
The story could end there, but it bounced. Jesus sends the man, and even when translating the Greek text closely, read: "having roughed up, he throws him out." And as he silenced the demons, he rudely ordered to be quiet miracle. 'Do not tell anyone. " Why this attitude confusing? Jesus feared perhaps unthinking enthusiasm of the crowds, the suspected patients. But should we not go further?
This is not so much the man Jesus rebuffed, the Evil One. Leprosy is like the grin of Satan. Leprosy, not that of Hansen's bacillus or the AIDS virus, but one that disfigures humanity, one that plagues the human heart, the leprosy of sin that makes so many places on earth as Jesus of hell n ' not need to be stopped at the spectacular, but they slowly descend to the mystery of his person. Rescue it proposes radical can be understood only in light of his death and resurrection. He wants us to measure what it costs to save man from evil and death.
What do we expect of Jesus? What do we want to be leprosy cleansed? What gnaws in us inner sickness and health and holiness? Ask for the grace of conversion. And do not forget all the 'lepers' outside our door, all those who are humiliated, despised, abused, cursed. "Go and do likewise," Jesus said to the lawyer after the parable of the Good Samaritan. Let love be in us stronger than while discovering in every man a brother. - Sr.Francine
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
2 "When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,
44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
45 "The leper who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry, `Unclean, unclean.'
46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp.
Psalms 32: 1 - 2, 5, 11
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
5 I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10: 31 - 33
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33 just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11: 1
1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Gospel Reading: Mark 1: 40 - 45
40 And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean."
41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I will; be clean."
42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
43 And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once,
44 and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people."
45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
Sermon/preaching/Homily - By Sr.Francine
Leprosy in the Bible was the most terrible scourge and most mysterious. The book of Leviticus devotes two entire chapters. The legislature is particularly concerned to identify the symptoms, not to cure the evil, what they were incapable at the time, but to exclude the patient from the community it endangers the sanctity. More than a disease, leprosy is an impurity, a divine punishment. Terrible is the condition of the leper in ancient times. Declared unclean, he withdrew apart to bewail himself, as one weeps over a dead man. It is excluded from all human relationships and all religious consolation. Over the centuries, some relaxations are well introduced. But it will take the arrival of Jesus treat to see the leper as a brother beloved. More. Jesus will be one of them, "... despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, like the lepers to be shunned ... struck by God and afflicted" (Isaiah 3.3 to 4).
Contemplate the story that gives us the gospel. Faced with this unfortunate, that violates the legal requirements to approach, Mark notes in Jesus a compassionate look. "Moved with pity," he wrote. What power in his home! Nothing repels him, nothing disgusts him, nothing scares him. If God is buried in the human pulp, if it is done close to the rotten flesh and heart rot is to radiate his holiness to purify its glowing purity.
Jesus dares more. There is this novel a poignant beauty of the Indian Arundhati Roy - "The God of Small Things" - which shows what the rejection of the pariah. Well Jesus was scandalous gesture of his hand to touch the untouchable. Ets he said: "I will; be clean." Behind the simplicity of the words of Mark let us guess the abyss of the Incarnation of the Son of God, the humanity of Jesus bearer of divine life. He is the great sacrament of the encounter between God and man, which all other sacraments derive their efficacy. He speaks and it touches: one thinks, the hand of God, in the fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the hand that communicates to the human spark of life. To communicate with the living dead that we are divine purification, the sacred humanity of Jesus touches us, touches us physically. We are immersed in the water of baptism, we eat the bread of the Eucharist, while those with the word body gestures, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, the Spirit," "Here the body of Christ. "
The story could end there, but it bounced. Jesus sends the man, and even when translating the Greek text closely, read: "having roughed up, he throws him out." And as he silenced the demons, he rudely ordered to be quiet miracle. 'Do not tell anyone. " Why this attitude confusing? Jesus feared perhaps unthinking enthusiasm of the crowds, the suspected patients. But should we not go further?
This is not so much the man Jesus rebuffed, the Evil One. Leprosy is like the grin of Satan. Leprosy, not that of Hansen's bacillus or the AIDS virus, but one that disfigures humanity, one that plagues the human heart, the leprosy of sin that makes so many places on earth as Jesus of hell n ' not need to be stopped at the spectacular, but they slowly descend to the mystery of his person. Rescue it proposes radical can be understood only in light of his death and resurrection. He wants us to measure what it costs to save man from evil and death.
What do we expect of Jesus? What do we want to be leprosy cleansed? What gnaws in us inner sickness and health and holiness? Ask for the grace of conversion. And do not forget all the 'lepers' outside our door, all those who are humiliated, despised, abused, cursed. "Go and do likewise," Jesus said to the lawyer after the parable of the Good Samaritan. Let love be in us stronger than while discovering in every man a brother. - Sr.Francine
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