Thursday of Week 1 in Ordinary Time - Mark 1: 40-45

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

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Mark 1: 40-45 - 'The leprosy left the man at once, and he was cured.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 2616 (in 'Jesus hears our prayer') - Prayer to Jesus is answered by him already during his ministry, through signs that anticipate the power of his death and Resurrection: Jesus hears the prayer of faith, expressed in words (the leper, Jairus, the Canaanite woman, the good thief) or in silence (the bearers of the paralytic, the woman with a hemorrhage who touches his clothes, the tears and ointment of the sinful woman) (abbreviated)

- 1504 (in 'Christ the Physician') - Often Jesus asks the sick to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, mud and washing. The sick try to touch him, “for power came forth from him and healed them all.” And so in the sacraments Christ continues to “touch” us in order to heal us.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome back to our podcast. As always, we're going to take a look at the gospel
0:16.8	reading from today's mass and we're going to look at some key features of the text,
0:21.6	what's going on on the literal level. How would the original readers have understood this?
0:25.9	What kind of things would they have thought about? So let's start with the passage, which is
0:30.2	Mark chapter 1, picking up where we left off yesterday. So we're now at verses 40 to 45. A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his
0:42.6	knees. If you want to, he said, you can cure me. Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand
0:50.4	and touched him. Of course I want to, he said, be cured. And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured.
0:59.6	Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him. Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and
1:07.1	show yourself to the priest and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses
1:12.2	as evidence of your recovery.
1:15.8	The man went away but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere,
1:21.7	so that Jesus could no longer openly go into any town, but had to stay outside in places
1:27.3	when nobody lived. Even so, people from
1:30.7	all around would come to him. So in this passage, Jesus heals a leper, and this story is
1:40.9	reasonably familiar to most of us. It's a short healing story.
1:45.3	So first, let's start with a bit of a discussion about leprosy.
1:48.2	So in that culture, leprosy didn't just refer to one particular disease.
1:52.5	It actually referred to a group of conditions, skin conditions that were all caused by bacteria.
2:00.6	What they had in common was that these group of diseases
2:03.5	caused skin disfigurement, loss of limbs in serious cases and maybe even blindness. So it was not
2:10.1	pretty... In that society, to have leprosy was basically a death sentence because there was no cure.
2:17.4	So people with leprosy were out a death sentence because there was no cure.
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