THURSDAY 14th JANUARY 2021
Mark 1.40-45:
“A leper came to Jesus, begging him on his knees, ‘If you wish, you can make me clean. Feeling sorry for him, he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I want to: be clean. The leprosy was immediately removed and he was made clean.”
In Jesus’ time, the leper was not only a sick person. He was also an outcast. With nothing.
Without rights, without family, without friends, without social relationships, even without religion.
And Jesus let him come to him and had compassion on him.
He restores to him all the “withs” because he restores to him all his dignity as a human person.
Today there are still many “people without” because there are many kinds of leprosy: loneliness, sadness, exclusion, abandonment, poverty, marginalization… Any one of us can be that leper who needs the compassion and the touch of Jesus.
Let yourself be touched by him today. And you too be the hand of Jesus who, by touching other lepers, restore comfort and dignity.
Good day.
Antonio Sanjuan Marin, cmf
