CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - REFLECTION 28TH SUNDAY C
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Mo NguyenOct 12 at 3:38 PM
WHAT SALVATION REALLY MEANS
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME / C
13 OCTOBER 2019
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Luke 17: 11- 19)
WHAT SALVATION REALLY MEANS
Jesus is on his long journey to Jerusalem. At the border between Samaria and Galilee, ten people afflicted with skin diseases cry out to him to help, keeping their distance as the Law of Moses required.
All ten are made clean when they follow his instructions to go and show themselves to the priest.
For nine of them, that is where the matter ends. But the tenth, who also happens to be a Samaritan, returns to Jesus, loudly praising God. When he prostrates himself in gratitude, Jesus remarks on the absence of the other nine.
Here we have on of several instances in Luke’s Gospel where Jesus confronts his audience with a ‘good Samaritan’. The appropriate behaviour of a ‘foreigner’, one on the margins of Jewish society, has shown up the shortcomings of those in the mainstream.
The Samaritan in the only one of the ten who receives from Jesus the assurance: ’Stand up and go on your way: your faith has brought you salvation.’ The other nine may have received physical healing. They did not really experience ‘salvation’. Beyond physical healing, the ‘salvation’ brought by Jesus means coming to know God in a new way: knowing God as Saviour, and allowing that knowledge to overflow in gratitude, love, and joy. This is the ‘knowledge of salvation’ of which Zachariah spoke in his canticle (the Benedictus) at the naming of John (1:77).
So today’s Gospel is not just about the healing of an afflicted person. Another ‘good Samaritan’ has shown what salvation really means for all.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
By Grace I'm Saved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY1lWYzuR7Q
The Thankful Leper (Luke 17: 11-19):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzZUDRrKgI8
Năm xưa trên cây Sồi - Hoàng Oanh [Thánh ca]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVR6aEbN5x0