Clean me, Lord!!!

Everyone of us is afflicted with our own version of leprosy.   We need to be cleaned … to be healed. 

In today’s Gospel, Mark 1:40-45, a leper comes up to Jesus and kneeling before Him begs:  “If you wish, you can make me clean.” He is suffering from a terrible affliction that is destroying his body. People were terrified of catching leprosy and, as a result, exiled lepers from society.  Jesus was moved with pity, stretched out His hands and touched the leper, and said to him: “I do will it.  Be made clean.” And the leprosy immediately left the man.  He was made clean.

Who of us is not in need of being made clean?  I know I am!  My prayer today is, “If you wish, you can make me clean!”