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GOSPEL POWER | JUNE 25, 2021 | FRIDAY
GOSPEL POWER | JUNE 25, 2021 | FRIDAY | 12th Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mt 8: 1 – 4
When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
Reflection
In the Jewish society that was so concerned with maintaining and protecting the boundary between what is clean and unclean, leprosy was a most dreaded disease that forced a person to live in isolation outside of the community to prevent contamination (cf. Lv 13:45). Lepers, however, were permitted to beg at the city gate (cf. 2 Kgs 7:3-9), and this must be where Jesus encounters the leper in today’s Gospel. The man simply asks Jesus to make a wish for his cleansing, but Jesus unexpectedly crosses the well-guarded boundary between clean and unclean and touches the untouchable. By doing that, he does not only heal the man physically, but also psycho-emotionally by drawing him out of the dreary isolation into which he is forced to live because of social pressure.
Prayer
Lord, you have crossed the boundary between heaven and earth to be with us. Increase our faith that there is no boundary you will not cross to bring us back to our rightful place in the Father’s kingdom. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER | JUNE 25, 2021 | FRIDAY | 12th Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Mt 8: 1 – 4
When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
Reflection
In the Jewish society that was so concerned with maintaining and protecting the boundary between what is clean and unclean, leprosy was a most dreaded disease that forced a person to live in isolation outside of the community to prevent contamination (cf. Lv 13:45). Lepers, however, were permitted to beg at the city gate (cf. 2 Kgs 7:3-9), and this must be where Jesus encounters the leper in today’s Gospel. The man simply asks Jesus to make a wish for his cleansing, but Jesus unexpectedly crosses the well-guarded boundary between clean and unclean and touches the untouchable. By doing that, he does not only heal the man physically, but also psycho-emotionally by drawing him out of the dreary isolation into which he is forced to live because of social pressure.
Prayer
Lord, you have crossed the boundary between heaven and earth to be with us. Increase our faith that there is no boundary you will not cross to bring us back to our rightful place in the Father’s kingdom. Amen.