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Friends, our Gospel for today has to do with <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">Jesus’ healing a leper</span></b>. There
aren’t that many lepers around today, but there are plenty of people
that we treat as outsiders or pariahs. Like Jesus, we should be
welcoming to them. Now, I have nothing particularly against that way of
reading the situation, but I suspect that we’ve all heard it a thousand
times.<br><br>Let me propose <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">a symbolic reading </span></b>a little different from
the customary one. I propose that <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the leper </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">here stands </span></b>not so much for
the socially ostracized but <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">for <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the one <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">who </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">has wandered away from</span> right
worship</span></b>, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the one <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">who</span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> is no longer able or willing</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">to worship
the true God</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">That’s why Jesus tells the man to “go, show yourself to
the priest.” In other words, go back to the temple <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">from</span> which</span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">you</span>’ve
been away for so long.</span></b><br><br><div><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">What is so important about worship? 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</span></b>. <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">To
worship is to signal to<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> oneself</span> what <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one</span>’s life is finally about.</span></b> It’s
nothing that God needs, but it is very much something that we need.</div><div>
<div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>Lábunk együtt
járjon, kezünk együtt gyűjtsön, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>szívünk együtt dobbanjon, bensőnk együtt
érezzen, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>elménk gondolata egy legyen, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>fülünk együtt figyeljen a
csöndességre, </span></span></b></i></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span lang="hu"><span>szemünk egymásba nézzen és tekintetünk összeforrjon, </span></span></b></i></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><i><b><span lang="hu"><span>ajkunk együtt könyörögjön az Örök Atyához irgalomért!</span></span> <br></b></i></span></div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Amen</b></i></div>
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