Oct
13
True Healing—Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle C)
2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19
Have you ever gotten so dirty that you felt like you just couldn’t wash enough? If you’ve run the Dirty Dash or taken a mud bath, it must seem like you just can’t get clean. We’re privileged to live in a time and place that gives us easy means to bathe and clean up after a day of hard work in the yard or a week-long hunting and camping trip. It just feels good to be clean again.
Cleanliness takes on deeper meanings in our readings today. Much of the Hebrew scripture, particularly the Levitical writings of the Torah, focus on various forms of cleanliness: physical, spiritual, and ritual cleanliness. A frequent symbol of uncleanliness in scripture is leprosy, which we find in our first reading and our Gospel.
Have you ever gotten so dirty that you felt like you just couldn’t wash enough? If you’ve run the Dirty Dash or taken a mud bath, it must seem like you just can’t get clean. We’re privileged to live in a time and place that gives us easy means to bathe and clean up after a day of hard work in the yard or a week-long hunting and camping trip. It just feels good to be clean again.
Cleanliness takes on deeper meanings in our readings today. Much of the Hebrew scripture, particularly the Levitical writings of the Torah, focus on various forms of cleanliness: physical, spiritual, and ritual cleanliness. A frequent symbol of uncleanliness in scripture is leprosy, which we find in our first reading and our Gospel.
