Lord if you want to, you can cure me

 

‘LORD, THAT I MAY SEE’

SHORT REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL OF THE DAY.

Gospel

Luke 5:12-16

'If you want to, you can cure me'

1.      Jesus was in one of the towns

2.      when a man appeared, covered with leprosy.

3.      Seeing Jesus he fell on his face and implored him.

4.      ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’

5.      Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!’

6.      And the leprosy left him at once.

7.      He ordered him to tell no one, ‘But go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering for your healing as Moses prescribed it, as evidence for them.’

 

8.      His reputation continued to grow, and large crowds would gather to hear him and to have their sickness cured, but he would always go off to some place where he could be alone and pray.

 

 

Jesus is Emmanuel – ‘God with us.’ He was amidst the people, ‘in one of the towns.’ He is with us today. He comes in many ways. Like the leper we must recognise him for what he is – God-with-us. In faith we can meet him and interact with him. He is with us to heal us.  Today I am the leper. You are the leper. Jesus is the answer to all our woes.

Let us acknowledge God among us in the Holy Eucharist. Therein lies all our hope. Therein lies the answer to all our problems. The Holy Eucharist is Jesus with us today. Let us fall down and worship him.

Yet we can interact with him through other people – if only we have faith. ‘I was hungry, thirsty, naked, homeless, sick and imprisoned and you helped me.’ Let us learn to see the face of Jesus, God made man, in every human being we meet today. Maybe you don’t see him? He is there all the same. Don’t miss the opportunity.