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February 11, 2024 (USCCB website views)
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Regular 6th Sunday: O God, may You teach us to abide in a right and true heart, that we may be formed by Your grace and become a dwelling place pleasing to You. Through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, He lives and reigns with you forever in union with God, the Holy Spirit.
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A leper came to him (and knelt down) and begged him, saying, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” He felt pity and reached out his hand and touched him and said, “I will. Be clean.” The leprosy was immediately cured and he became clean (Mark 1:40-42).
today the church celebrates world wedding anniversary. It is always celebrated on the second Sunday of February.
The optional commemoration of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is normally celebrated today, will be replaced by Sunday’s liturgy.
February 7th to 14th is National Marriage Week, and today is World wedding anniversary.
Explanation of the Mass reading for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B:
of first reading taken from Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 And it concerns regulations enforced by priests regarding certain physical diseases that make a person unclean and threaten the health of his neighbors.
of Second reading It is from St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians 10:31, 11:1 And it speaks of us imitating Paul, just as Paul imitates Christ, for the sake of the gospel and for the unity of God’s church.
of gospel from St. Mark 1:40-45. We see both Jesus’ divine power and divine mercy in this act of healing. Every instant cure required divine power. Even if the disease is treatable, nature’s normal processes take time to fight off the cause and return to normal. Therefore, if some force beyond nature caused an instantaneous recovery, some supernatural cause brought it about. But even if the disease is incurable, as was the case with actual leprosy at the time, it is more emphasized that it is still the result of divine power that can be removed by a simple command. I did. Jesus had this divine power because He Himself was God and the Son of God.
But his mercy towards suffering humanity was simultaneously consummated and divine, as was his power. Out of His compassion for the sad plight of humanity on earth, Jesus descended to the level of humans, becoming equal to us in all respects except sin, and suffering with us and for us. It is. By his human suffering, he made amends to his heavenly Father, brought satisfaction for all the sins of the world, a satisfaction that all mankind could never attain, and earned for us God’s forgiveness. is. At the same time, “by uniting our humanity with His divinity, God brings us into His orbit, making us His adopted children and heirs of eternal life in the Holy Trinity.” ” This seems too good to be true, so some men deny it or refuse to accept it. Such a person makes the mistake of measuring God’s infinite mercy by the limited measure of his own finite and trivial mercy.
Thank you God for His infinite mercy! We thank God that His Son, Christ, came and lived among us. God has put heaven and a piece of his life within our reach. He gave us the Church and the sacraments, all the necessary help, and showed us how to achieve them. But we still need all the mercy of Christ to get there. We have a tendency to sin, and unfortunately we succumb to that tendency so many times that only God’s mercy can save us from our foolishness. But that mercy is available to us if we only ask for it. What we sinners need is the faith and confidence of the leper in today’s Gospel reading. He firmly believed in the power and mercy of Jesus. “If you are willing, you can cleanse me,” he said as he approached Jesus.
This should also be our approach if we are unfortunate enough to fall into serious sin. Jesus wills and desires our salvation. His incarnation and death on the cross prove this. The fact that he left the church with the power to forgive sins is another proof of his will and desire to help us. “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me,” he said. Part of the power he bequeathed to the Church lies in the sacrament of penance, which can wash away the leprosy of sin and restore sinners to new and perfect spiritual health. How foolish, then, for a Christian to sin and become isolated from God like an unclean leper! But it is even more foolish to remain in this unclean state when a cure for the disease is readily available to any sincere penitent.
-excerpt Sunday reading session From Father Kevin O’Sullivan, OFM