Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
It is truly wondrous when others actually believe you love them. It is glorious when someone thanks you.
John J. Pilch
“Biblical leprosy” is not “catchy;” it’s “dirty”; and it makes individuals and the community “dirty;” “impure;” “unclean.”
To be really converted one must be converted inwardly, in one’s heart, for “a humbled, contrite heart God will not spurn.”
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
The Samaritan alone among the ten gets an insight: neither Jerusalem nor Gerizim is the sacred place to meet the mediation of God’s presence. That “sacred space” is now the person of Jesus
Reginald H. Fuller
It is striking that all ten lepers were healed. The grateful one got no more than the others did, except the assurance from the Lord, “Your faith has made you well.”