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Mo NguyenCẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LỜI CHÚAFri, Feb 12 at 1:04 PMSIX SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B
14th February 2021
COMPASSION FINDS A WAY
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD (Mark 1: 40 – 45)
COMPASSION FINDS A WAY
One of the painful learnings we have had from COVID 19 is just how difficult it is to deal with contagious diseases. In Ancient Israel they had learned that quarantining people suffering from skin diseases was necessary until they could be declared by priests ready to safely return to the community. For lepers and those who loved them, it was a brutally painful experience of fear, isolation, and rejection.
In the Gospel today a leper has heard about Jesus and in his desperation risks his life, and the health of others, by entering the city. Falling his knees he pleads with Jesus to be healed. In his boundless compassion for the man, Jesus reaches out and touches him. In doing this Jesus takes the extraordinary step of making himself an outsider. Healed by Jesus, the man can now be declared fit to return safely to the community. His life has been returned to him and while Jesus has commanded him to be silent, he simply cannot hold it in – the good news of Jesus cannot be contained. At the end of the episode, an outsider has been brought back home and now Jesus has become an outsider himself, and that’s where everyone can find him.
Not seeking our own good, but the good of others by not causing them scandal or harm was a lesson Paul was trying to teach the community of Christians in Corinth. Jesus’ compassion leads him to reach out to all those in need. Paul hopes that his Christians will live their lives in the same way.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVc5TrnEwhQ
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