11 Jan 2024
Reaching Out
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For 11 January 2024, Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time, based on Mark 1:40-45
A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
12 January 2024 @ 12:40 am
Thank you Fr Martin.
12 January 2024 @ 5:22 am
What a necessary and timely message! God bless your ministry, Father, and thank you.
12 January 2024 @ 4:59 pm
Thank you, dear Martin, for your inspired and profound reflection on Jesus’ encounter with the leper– and the challenge it has for us today!