Book of Leviticus 13,1-2.44-46. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants, the man is leprous and unclean, and the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head. The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!' As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean, since he is in fact unclean. He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp."
Psalms 32(31),1-2.5.11. Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.
Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just; exult, all you upright of heart.
First Letter to the Corinthians 10,31-33.11,1. So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 1,40-45.
A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once. Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them." The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.
FAUSTI - "I want, be cleansed!" replies Jesus. That is why He went out: to cleanse man of his leprosy. Expelled into the desert, without relations with anyone, man is thrown alive into the hell of solitude. The only law that he is obliged to observe is that of excluding himself by shouting his evil to those who inadvertently approach to him! The law, which discerns between pure and impure, between good and evil, between righteous and sinner, can only rightly distinguish, divide and segregate. In a vain attempt to defend life, it can do nothing but acknowledge death. Jesus, on the other hand, is the "Good News" of One who touches the leper by healing him, forgives the evil by healing him, absolves the sinner, justifying him. Those excluded from the law are the beneficiaries of this gift. In fact, He is doctor, who came for the sick and not for the healthy (2:17). This miracle, introduces a section of five disputes about the difference between the law and the Gospel. At the end, Jesus' death will be decreed. The cleansed leper represents the passage from the old man, whom the law relegates to death, to the new man who proclaims the "good news". He asks for a miracle, he knows what he wants, and he asks for what he wants. What Jesus does to them is an instruction for us, so that we know what to want and ask of Him: exactly the gift that He gives them. His prodigies serve to liberate our deepest aspirations, left unresolved because they were considered impossible. Seeing them realized instead, we have the courage to hope and we begin to ask, opening our hand to receive what He wants to give us. The brief Words that Jesus adds to the miracles are an education of these desires: they explain what He wants to give me beyond my own desires, which always remain ambiguous as long as they are moved more by my fears than by His promises. Only in this way can I respond correctly to His question: "What do you want I should do to you?" and ask, wanting, what He wants to give me. In the miracle neither the name, nor the place, nor the time is said, so that the name is mine, the place is here and the time is now, When I listen to the Gospel, the former leper himself proclaims it, like Jesus, if I convert and entrust myself to Jesus, for me what is told is fulfilled here and now. All that Jesus does and says in the continuation of the Gospel is what He wants to give me and what I can, indeed I must, desire from Him, with humility and trust, insistently asking for it.
Testimony The first time I encountered lepers was during the celebration of Sunday Mass. At the time of the exchange of peace a leper came toward me with his hand eaten by leprosy and I was frozen not knowing what to do. The poor man walked away and I was mortified. Repenting bitterly I went to him at the end of Mass apologizing. The ice had melted and when with two Africans I went to the village of Agok inhabited by lepers, I urged my companions not to be afraid of infection and went among them who were waiting greeting them and embracing them mindful of what I read and heard in the Gospel, "a leper cried out Lord if you are willing you can cleanse me! Jesus had compassion on him and touched him on the forehead and healed him. Jesus had compassion on lepers, and you?
Book of Leviticus
RispondiElimina13,1-2.44-46.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
"If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants,
the man is leprous and unclean, and the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head.
The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'
As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean, since he is in fact unclean. He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp."
Psalms
32(31),1-2.5.11.
Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
my guilt I covered not.
I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,”
and you took away the guilt of my sin.
Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you just;
exult, all you upright of heart.
First Letter
to the Corinthians 10,31-33.11,1.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,
just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved.
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
according to Saint Mark 1,40-45.
A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean."
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean."
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them."
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.
FAUSTI - "I want, be cleansed!" replies Jesus. That is why He went out: to cleanse man of his leprosy.
RispondiEliminaExpelled into the desert, without relations with anyone, man is thrown alive into the hell of solitude.
The only law that he is obliged to observe is that of excluding himself by shouting his evil to those who inadvertently approach to him!
The law, which discerns between pure and impure, between good and evil, between righteous and sinner, can only rightly distinguish, divide and segregate. In a vain attempt to defend life, it can do nothing but acknowledge death.
Jesus, on the other hand, is the "Good News" of One who touches the leper by healing him, forgives the evil by healing him,
absolves the sinner, justifying him. Those excluded from the law are the beneficiaries of this gift.
In fact, He is doctor, who came for the sick and not for the healthy (2:17).
This miracle, introduces a section of five disputes about the difference between the law and the Gospel.
At the end, Jesus' death will be decreed. The cleansed leper represents the passage from the old man, whom the law relegates to death, to the new man who proclaims the "good news".
He asks for a miracle, he knows what he wants, and he asks for what he wants.
What Jesus does to them is an instruction for us, so that we know what to want and ask of Him: exactly the gift that He gives them. His prodigies serve to liberate our deepest aspirations, left unresolved because they were considered impossible. Seeing them realized instead, we have the courage to hope and we begin to ask, opening our hand to receive what He wants to give us.
The brief Words that Jesus adds to the miracles are an education of these desires: they explain what He wants to give me beyond my own desires, which always remain ambiguous as long as they are moved more by my fears than by His promises.
Only in this way can I respond correctly to His question: "What do you want I should do to you?" and ask, wanting, what He wants to give me.
In the miracle neither the name, nor the place, nor the time is said, so that the name is mine, the place is here and the time is now, When I listen to the Gospel, the former leper himself proclaims it, like Jesus, if I convert and entrust myself to Jesus, for me what is told is fulfilled here and now.
All that Jesus does and says in the continuation of the Gospel is what He wants to give me and what I can, indeed I must, desire from Him, with humility and trust, insistently asking for it.
Testimony
RispondiEliminaThe first time I encountered lepers was during the celebration of Sunday Mass. At the time of the exchange of peace a leper came toward me with his hand eaten by leprosy and I was frozen not knowing what to do.
The poor man walked away and I was mortified.
Repenting bitterly I went to him at the end of Mass apologizing.
The ice had melted and when with two Africans I went to the village of Agok inhabited by lepers, I urged my companions not to be afraid of infection and went among them who were waiting greeting them and embracing them mindful of what I read and heard in the Gospel, "a leper cried out Lord if you are willing you can cleanse me! Jesus had compassion on him and touched him on the forehead and healed him.
Jesus had compassion on lepers, and you?