We all have our own unclean habits, which keep us from being in full communion with our God and our neighbors. These are the sins we must guard ourselves against every day lest we find ourselves spiritual lepers. After curing the lepers in today’s reading Jesus sends them to present themselves to the priest and rejoin their community. We are given the same gift by the Christ through the Church’s sacraments of forgiveness. When we seek out one of these sacraments we like the leper say, "Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean." God responds to us just as Jesus did to the leper, "I will do it." Our simple act of contrition and petition are enough to make us clean in the eyes of God.
What are the sins in our lives which make us unclean? How can we allow God to work through us in order to rid ourselves of these sins? Have we ever really appreciated the magnitude of God’s mercy towards us?
O Lord, make us clean.
Amen.
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