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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> our Gospel for today has to do with Jesus’ healing a leper. </b></span>There
aren’t that many lepers around
today, but<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> there are plenty of people that we treat as outsiders or
pariahs. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Like Jesus, we should be welcoming to them.</b></span> Now I have nothing
particularly against that way of reading the situation, but I suspect
that we’ve all heard it a thousand times.</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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Let
me propose a symbolic reading </b></span></span></b></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"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight: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">a little different from the customary
one. I propose that</span></span></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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight: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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the leper here stands,</span></b></span></span></b></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"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight: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"> not so much for the socially
ostracized, but</span></span></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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight: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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> for the one who</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">has wandered away from </span>right worship,<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">
</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>the one who </b></span>i<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>s no longer able or willing to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>worship the true God</b></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> That’s
why </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">J<b>esus tells the man to "go show yourself to the priest."</b></span> In
other words, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">go back to the Temple from which you’ve been away for so
long.</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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What
is so important about worship? </b><b>To worship is <u>to order the whole of
one’s life toward the living God,</u> 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. It’s nothing that God needs, but it is
very much something that we need.</span></b><br></span></b></b></div>
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