Friday, January 10, 2020 — the week after the Epiphany — Gospel of Jesus-Christ of Luke 5, 12- 16 — Jesus proclaimed the gospel of the kingdom, healing every disease and infirmity among the people.
"I do will it. Be made clean" is the goodness of God that Jesus wants to express through his consent to cleanse this leper. In Jewish culture, as announced in the book of Deuteronomy 28,27-33, is a disease that is the fruit of sin. A disease that forbids contact with one's neighbour, that excludes the one who catches it from society. By his faith, without a strong interior, this man knows that Jesus can reintegrate him into society. He prostrated himself and lamented before him to express his suffering and distress because of his illness.
Christ is compassionate and merciful. He overcame this hindrance that undermines the human relationship between people. He stretched out His hand and touched the man who was purified. It was God's will that this healing took place. It is through the love of Christ that man is saved.
It is to save the man Christ came to earth, among us. There is no reason for him not to answer this man's supplication and as proof, He sends him to show himself to the priest so that he may be restored to society.
This case that Saint Luke relates in the Gospel shows us that God is always quick to forgive us. Other forms of leprosy gangrene our daily life, let us accept his extended hand that wants to touch us and lead us to his mercy.
