There is an interesting story of Jesus healing ten lepers in Luke 17:11-19. Leprosy was highly contagious in biblical days and without cure. In fact, Jewish law required those infected to shout ...

Consider the 10 lepers. All were healed physically, but only one returned to thank Jesus. ... It was only the Samaritan who returned to thank Jesus for his healing.

The main reading today is about the Healing of the Ten Lepers (Lk. 17:12-19). In this miracle, like most of the miracles in the Gospel, is presented to us an inner meaning and outer meaning. The inner ...

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It is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel teaching is about the cleansing of ten lepers that you’ll read in Luke 17:11-19. If you read carefully this story, you’ll see how ...

The healing was entrusted to people, and they did it! No wonder Jesus had that strange vision earlier, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18). So here Jesus is, on his way to ...

Ten lepers approach Jesus. “Approach” is used advisedly, since Old Testament Law restricted how close lepers could come to a settled community, e.g., see Leviticus, chapters 13 and 14. They ...

And having raised him by the hand to accompany him and John to afternoon prayer at the Temple — to be like that one in 10 lepers who voices gratitude (Luke 17:15-19) — his very public healing ...

It's the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time and our gospel this Sunday is similar to last Sunday's gospel, where we learned that our Lord Jesus Christ is a healer and a preacher.

The Gospel, all the Gospel is a gift of God to us, and although we are not continuously reminded of the need to be grateful, how can we not respond with gratitude to what the Gospel brings to us? God ...