O Praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
“If you will, you can make me clean,” cried out the leper. Jesus stretched out his hand, toughed him and healed him. The leper suffered from two ailments: physical due to the disease of leprosy and mental due to social and religious expulsion. In his frustration, he called out to the Lord as the last ray hope of being healed.
He was amply rewarded for his trust in the power of the Lord. By touching him and healing him, the Lord restored both his physical health and his human dignity in the community. Jesus the divine healer is our refuge in our sufferings and problems, and he in his turn commissions us to extend our hands of healing to the teeming humanity who suffer in one way or the other.
“Compassion has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence and learning.” – Frederick W. Faber.
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