It's the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time and our gospel this Sunday is similar to last Sunday's gospel, where we learned that our Lord Jesus Christ is a healer and a preacher. Yet he wasn't schooled in ...

Today’s Gospel story is about the Cleansing of the Leper. As you must have learned a long time ago, leprosy was the scourge of ancient society. It was a very contagious disease and when you got ...

The gospel account of the leper healed by Jesus (Mark 1:40-45) presents a picture of what we as Christians should be as reborn and reconciled believers. In our on-going meditation on Jesus Christ, we ...

Would you consider yourself a leper? We use that term to mean several things. It could mean a person with Hansen’s disease, the brutal ailment that attacks nerves and limbs and causes deformity. It ...

Mark tells us that Jesus' first healing miracle happened when his touch made it possible for an ailing elder to begin to minister. Quickly thereafter, everybody in Jesus' adopted hometown of Capernaum ...

Benedict XVI reflects on Jesus' healing of the leper and 154th anniversary of Our Lady of Lourdes' first appearance to St. Bernadette. VATICAN CITY (EWTN NEWS/CNA)—Jesus Christ’s healing of the leper ...

Matthew 8:3 - Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.”… Do you know that it is God’s will for you to be healed? In fact, Jesus always healed the sick who came ...

Where Jesus healed lepers: The Church of St. George The original church cave on top of which the church rests is believed to be the fourth oldest church in the Holy Land and one of the holiest ...

The gospel story of Jesus’ encounter with the 10 lepers is certainly about the importance of gratitude, but there are other dimensions to it as well. One of these is Jesus’ outreach to those on the ...

Cape Cod, MA. Readers of my essays here over the years know that while I take various approaches to interreligious matters — my “portfolio” for In All Things — ranging from occasional current events ...