Thursday, January 15, 2015

Hands and Feet

In today's gospel "a leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched the leper, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." Mark 1:40-41.

Coming from communion, I read in my commentary (Living With Christ):  "Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours.  Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on the world.  Yours are the feet with which he goes about doing good, and yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world."  -St. Teresa of Avila.

Lord, help me, when someone asks me "will you help me," respond by saying, "Yes, I want to."


 

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