DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Disease” – Healing: In today’s Gospel, the man with skin disease humbled himself and pleaded with Jesus to cure him. Jesus, in His Merciful Love cured him. We are each “physically, emotionally and spiritually” in need of healing from Jesus. Are we humble enough to seek Jesus to take root in our hearts and heal us?
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Luke 5:12-16
It happened that 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.