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The Word Today
Daily Reading for Sunday February 11, 2018
Reading 1 - Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 11
Reading 2 - First Corinthians 10:31--11:1
Gospel, Mark 1:40-45
The first reading opens our eyes to the infectious skin disease called Leprosy and God's instructions to Moses and Aaron on how to handle those identified to be leprous. They were examined by the Priest, isolated and only permitted to return to the community upon the performance of a purification rite. They were dreaded.
The gospel is about the story of the Leper who approached Jesus for healing instead of going to the Priest and how Jesus out of pity; touched, healed and directed him to comply with the Law by showing himself to the priest so as to offer what Moses commanded for the cleansing.
It exposed us to the depth of Jesus' compassion and the manifestation of His healing power. Unlike in the old testament where people with Leprosy were isolated and declared unclean, the Leper, with faith, approached Jesus as his last hope of becoming clean again. He knew he was unclean and unwanted by the society yet he approached the healer of all ailments. He ignored the existing Mosaic law, ignored the implications of approaching a clean person while he was still unclean and with confidence knelt before the healer who granted his plea and healed him out of pity.
Sin has made us unclean before God. Like the Leper, we are encouraged to break away from whatever is restraining us from approaching God today. All we have to do is; acknowledge our unclean state, then approach God with confidence and ask to be restored. Once we confess, our compassionate savior will heal, renew and make us whole again for blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, whose transgression is forgiven.
St. Paul in the second reading encourages us to do everything to the glory of God and not to seek our own advantage. Like Jesus obeyed the Law, we are to give no offence to any man and strive to be imitators of Christ so many might be saved.
To publish your Sunday reflection kindly send an Email to - nikyjone@gmail.com before Saturday of every week.
Only approved reflections will be published.
Thank you.
May the Lord bless us, Amen.
Reading 1 - Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 11
Reading 2 - First Corinthians 10:31--11:1
Gospel, Mark 1:40-45
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The first reading opens our eyes to the infectious skin disease called Leprosy and God's instructions to Moses and Aaron on how to handle those identified to be leprous. They were examined by the Priest, isolated and only permitted to return to the community upon the performance of a purification rite. They were dreaded.
The gospel is about the story of the Leper who approached Jesus for healing instead of going to the Priest and how Jesus out of pity; touched, healed and directed him to comply with the Law by showing himself to the priest so as to offer what Moses commanded for the cleansing.
It exposed us to the depth of Jesus' compassion and the manifestation of His healing power. Unlike in the old testament where people with Leprosy were isolated and declared unclean, the Leper, with faith, approached Jesus as his last hope of becoming clean again. He knew he was unclean and unwanted by the society yet he approached the healer of all ailments. He ignored the existing Mosaic law, ignored the implications of approaching a clean person while he was still unclean and with confidence knelt before the healer who granted his plea and healed him out of pity.
Sin has made us unclean before God. Like the Leper, we are encouraged to break away from whatever is restraining us from approaching God today. All we have to do is; acknowledge our unclean state, then approach God with confidence and ask to be restored. Once we confess, our compassionate savior will heal, renew and make us whole again for blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, whose transgression is forgiven.
St. Paul in the second reading encourages us to do everything to the glory of God and not to seek our own advantage. Like Jesus obeyed the Law, we are to give no offence to any man and strive to be imitators of Christ so many might be saved.
To publish your Sunday reflection kindly send an Email to - nikyjone@gmail.com before Saturday of every week.
Only approved reflections will be published.
Thank you.
May the Lord bless us, Amen.
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