"'Go show yourselves to the priests.' As they were going [the 10 lepers] were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God."
How interesting it is that Jesus doesn't always heal us in the moment, as he certainly can, but sometimes asks for an act of obedience first, and through that act heals us. "Go show yourselves to the priests." And how amazing that, like the lepers, we don't always recognize when we've been healed!
Today too he bids us to go to our priests for healing, not only for our confessional healing, but for solid moral guidance to be healed of the common leprosies of our time. To live within "the moral wisdom of the Catholic Church" is key to emotional healing in our lives. Look up a new book by that same title written by arguably the smartest Jesuit in this country.
Like the 10 lepers, we too are promised to experience God's healing by simply following Jesus' wishes expressed clearly through his beloved Church.
Fr. Anthony Wieck, SJ
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