Gospel: Luke
17:11-19
As Jesus
continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As
he was entering a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance from
him and raised their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when
he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going
they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned,
glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked
him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they
not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give
thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved
you.”
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Reflection:
Do we
express our gratitude to Jesus, we who always receive blessing from Him every day?
In our
gospel, ten lepers were healed by Jesus but only one a Samaritan (considered as
an enemy of the Jews) was grateful enough to express his gratefulness to Jesus.
What happened to the other nine? They went back to their normal lives with the
gift of eyesight courtesy of Jesus, yet they never went back to Jesus to
express their gratitude first.
The
Samaritan in the gospel speaks to us by his faith and deed of gratefulness; he
tells us to always have faith and to always be grateful to the miracles
that Jesus gives us everyday. For example, do we still remember to thank Jesus
for the gift of life every morning?
Many of
us are so busy that we forget to say our prayer of thanksgiving upon waking-up.
Many of the young people today, instead of saying their prayer of thanksgiving,
they instead check first their smart phones for new messages and updates.
Let us
never forget to express our thanksgiving to Jesus no matter how busy we are. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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