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2/8/2024

A reflection upon the Gospel of Mark 1:40-45

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00:00 Whenever in the Gospels we come across a story about a leper, it always makes me think about

00:10 me, basically, because the leper seems to represent the person who is most powerless,

00:17 who's suffering, who's facing a terrible misery and affliction of whatever sort, over which

00:25 he has no strength at all.

00:30 He can't rise above it.

00:33 And the incredible thing about the lepers in the Gospel is this fact.

00:39 They don't give up.

00:41 They don't cave into despair.

00:44 They don't let their suffering become the meaning of their life.

00:51 Rather, they let their suffering lead them to the meaning of their life.

00:58 And they live with this tremendous expectation.

01:01 And that's why this Sunday when we hear the Gospel of the leper, when the leper sees Jesus,

01:06 he kneels down and he says, "If you will to do so, you can make me clean."

01:12 That kind of expectation before an exceptional presence who is Jesus is beautiful.

01:19 And in many respects, the way that we come to live that expectation is precisely through

01:26 what we suffer.

01:29 Our suffering leads us to be on the lookout for this exceptional presence and to surrender

01:37 to him with hope.

01:39 Because what is hope?

01:41 Hope means confronting the future with a certainty that we find in the present.

01:49 I wouldn't be filled with expectation if that expectation was not meant to be fulfilled

01:55 in the one who can fulfill it.

01:57 So no matter how miserable and afflicted our life might be right now, let's really live

02:03 the hope of the leper.

02:05 Let's really confront this exceptional presence that comes to find us in our suffering.

02:11 And we can do that like the leper by kneeling down and adoring him.

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