6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 15 Feb 2009

Click here to download and listen to this homily (25 minutes) given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 5:30 pm Mass.  Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean."  Curing the leper of his spots restored him to the community, he was no longer unclean and outside the community.  This restoration is the good news the former leper feels compelled to tell everyone.  In our stain glass window the lepers look like the have polka dots, in some way we are all covered in dots of one sort or the other.  Jesus heals us of these dots.  We need to be like Jesus and invite all those who feel outside the church community to return and be healed through the Eucharist.

Bishop-Elect Edward Burns would like to personally invite back anyone who feels outside our community.  Please let Fr. Thomas Weise know who these persons might be.

Readings: Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46; Psalm 32; 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1; Mark 1:40-45