Be Made CleanQueda limpio
Click here for daily readings Leprosy. Now a treatable disease, it was once a sentence of shame, isolation, and gradual death. Because it is contagious, lepers were required to remain far from others, and they could not participate in worship or any other communal activity. This horrible disease damaged the skin, nerves, lungs, and eyes, leading to deformed limbs and faces, poor eyesight and weakness. When the leper sees Jesus in today’s Gospel, he breaks all the rules. When Jesus sees the leper, he breaks the rules too. The leper breaks the rule of remaining far away from people when…