In the first reading, Naaman is healed after listening to the prophet Elisha. He chooses to follow the God of Israel. In the Gospel, ten lepers are healed, but only one comes back to thank Jesus. This man, a Samaritan, shows true faith by giving thanks. This Sunday reading reminds us that faith is not just believing. It is also saying thank you to God.

On the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C, we are invited to look at our own lives. We can ask if we thank God enough for His care and love for us.

Some Takeaways from Luke 17: 11-19

Christ’s miracle did more than clear up the skin of people who were badly deformed. He restored more than physical well-being, but also restored to the lepers a sense of dignity, self-worth, and the ability to be part of the community. More than a miracle of clinical transformation, this episode can be seen as a miracle about possibilities. In healing the lepers, Christ gave hope and renewed life to people who had known only abuse and shame. He made them whole —spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, as well as physically.

What are the things that make each of us feel like lepers — like outcasts, unworthy, shunned? This episode should give courage and hope to all who have felt at one time like unwanted lepers in the world.
It also compels us to follow in the footsteps of the healing Christ.
To companion them in their own journeys of healing and wholeness.
To be grateful for the ways they reveal God’s reign to us in challenging and even broken ways.

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