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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">t<b>oday's Gospel recounts the Lord's healing of ten lepers, only one of
whom comes back to give thanks</b></span>. Leprosy frightened people in ancient
times, just as contagious and mysterious diseases frighten people today.
But, more than this, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore
incapable </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>of engaging in the act of worship.</b></span> It is not accidental that
the person responsible for examining the patient in ancient Israel was
the priest. <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>The priest's job was to monitor the whole process of
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Israelite worship</span>, very much including who could and couldn't
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">participate in the Temple.</span></b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">What
is so
important about worship? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>To worship is to order the whole of one's life
toward the living God, and, in doing so, to become interiorly and
exteriorly rightly ordered. </b></span>To worship is to signal to oneself what
one's life is finally about. Worship is not something that God needs,
but it is very much something that we need.</span></b></b></b></b></p>
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