DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Jesus – Healing: In today’s Gospel, Jesus heeded the pleadings of the man with skin disease and cured him. When we have illnesses, including emotional traumas and the darkness of sin, we should likewise plead to Jesus to free us from them. He never fails if, our hearts are open to be healed and reconciled with God.
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 5:12-16
Jesus was in one of the towns when suddenly a man appeared, covered with a skin-disease. Seeing Jesus he fell on his face and implored him saying, ‘Sir, if you are willing you can cleanse me.’ He stretched out his hand, and touched him saying, ‘I am willing. Be cleansed.’ At once the skin-disease left him.
He ordered him to tell no one, ‘But go and show yourself to the priest and make the offering for your cleansing just as Moses prescribed, as evidence to them.’ But the news of him kept spreading, and large crowds would gather to hear him and to have their illnesses cured, but he would go off to some deserted place and pray.