It's the 6th Sunday in Ordinary time and our gospel this Sunday is similar to last Sunday's gospel, where we learned that our Lord Jesus Christ is a healer and a preacher. Yet he wasn't schooled in ...

Today’s chapter is Luke 5. Putting verse 14 in context, we see that Jesus has just healed a man who was “full of leprosy” (vs. 12). This means, from Dr. Luke’s perspective – if I hadn’t already ...

Just as real estate agents insist on the importance of “location, location, location,” so exegetes pay close attention to the context in which biblical passages are set. The gospel reading for Sunday ...

Do you know the story of Jesus healing the ten lepers? You will find it in Luke 17:11-19. Though it only occurs in Luke’s Gospel, it’s not terribly obscure and it’s pretty easy to follow. Sick people ...

Together with last Sunday’s gospel reading on being dutiful servants, the account by Saint Luke about the healing of the 10 lepers (Luke 17:11-19) form a sequence on the absolute gratuitousness of ...

It’s almost a paradox that, although Mark’s is the shortest Gospel and we’ve read it on five Sundays since Jan. 10, we’re just today finishing chapter one! For the past three weeks, Jesus has healed ...

The story of the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19) appears often in instructional material for children. I certainly remember learning from this story the lesson of gratitude. The moral of this story was ...

Today’s Gospel is a lesson in gratitude, especially in gratitude to God, which is its own separate category. Ten lepers approach Jesus. “Approach” is used advisedly, since Old Testament Law restricted ...

11-19. And it came to pass, as He went to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who ...