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This week’s Sermon<br />
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,<br />
In today's Gospel, we learn that our Lord healed all<br />
ten lepers but only one out of ten responded positively<br />
to His Blessings.<br />
The Love of our Lord was for all ten Lepers, and it is for all of us. It is there to<br />
transform the hearts of all men and women of all ages and backgrounds that have and<br />
will come to Him. In our tradition we see how ordinary people like us respond to the<br />
life-transforming Love of the Lord and become saints. Sometimes they chose to leave<br />
everything and tοοκ up their cross and followed Him until the end of their long lives to<br />
become saints.<br />
The question for us is how we respond to the call of the Lord. He looks at all of<br />
us and loves us all. Sometimes like the nine lepers we unfortunately get caught up in<br />
the cares of this world and we do not respond to His love with thankfulness. We get<br />
carried away with our success and anxieties like Martha who wanted to impress the<br />
Lord with her work and like the young man who wished to inherit the Kingdom of God<br />
but did not want to give up his possessions. I hope and pray that by aligning our priorities<br />
we can find the will to sit at His feet and listen to His word like Martha’s sister<br />
Mary did and we can fallow Him by responding to His call like the disciples did. The<br />
Good News is that He Loves us and no matter what happens He knows that both Martha<br />
and the young man and even the nine lepers will come back to Him. Christ knows<br />
that even if it took centuries all of humanity would eventually come to him because He<br />
is the Way and the Life. He knows that we all need to hear and receive His blessing<br />
given to the thankful leper: “Rise and go your way, your faith has made you well”.
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