1.15.14

Lectio: Mk 1.40-45                                                     

Meditatio: “Moved with pity, he [Jesus] stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him,’ I do will it. Be made clean’.” Mk 1.41                     

Oratio: O God, You sent Your Son to show us among Your characteristics that You are not an aloof God but a God who is concerned for us.
        
I remember Jesus showed this side of You when He was moved by pity for a leper and cured him of it because of the leper’s faith and because He was moved by compassion because You are a compassionate God.

Grant that I may remember that the Good News is not something to be memorized but above all it is to be put into action in the way of we live; and compassion, not just pity but a reaching out to help, must be a key component of how we live for that is Jesus’ way.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what.
God is saying to you.

Operatio: Reflect: "pity.. touched...Be...clean”; Jesus shows us that pity is not enough but also the power of touch and most importantly the requirement that we do what we are able to alleviate the plight of another. In prayer seek the grace to always remember the power of touch and that Jesus touched the untouchable, the leper, and then healed him. We must do what we can when someone is suffering for that is the Good News in action.

Tomorrow's reading: Mk 2.1-12