Friends, this week, our Gospel is the marvelous passage from Mark about Jesus curing a leper. These moments of healing stayed so deeply in the imaginations of the first Christians. What do we make of this particular healing of a leper? Let’s look at it from three angles: life on the margins of society, the shame of our own sin, and the absence from right worship.
Mass Readings
- Reading 1 — Lv 13:1-2, 44-46
- Psalm — Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11
- Reading 2 — 1 Cor 10:31—11:1
- Gospel — Mk 1:40-45