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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> our Gospel for today has to do with Jesus’ healing of a leper.</b></span> </span></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Leprosy
frightened people in ancient times, just as contagious and mysterious
diseases frightened people up through modern times. </span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><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">But, more than this,
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> leprosy rendered someone unclean and therefore incapable of</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>engaging in
the act of worship. </b></span>It is not accidental that the person
who should do the examining of the patient in ancient Israel should be
the priest.</span><br><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 style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
man who knelt before Jesus and begged for a cure was not simply
concerned about his medical condition; he was an Israelite <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">in exile from</span>
the Temple—</b></span>and hence he was <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>a very apt symbol of</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the general condition
of scattered, exiled, wandering</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> Israel. </b><b>In curing him, Jesus was,
symbolically speaking, gathering the tribes and bringing them back to
the worship of the true God.</b></span></span></b></b></div>
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