From today’s Gospel reading:
Moved with
pity, Jesus stretched out his hand,
Touched
the leper and said to him,
"I do will
it. Be made clean."
Reflection:
Rather than stepping back from the leper who approached him,
Jesus felt pity for him and touched him. He bridged the gap between
the "clean" and "unclean," the "respectable" insiders and the
"disrespectable" outsiders. As his disciples we are to do the same.
So we ask ourselves:
- When have I experienced being an outsider?
- Who reached out and bridged the gap to include
me?
- How can I do that for someone else, an outsider?
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