Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

What are we desperate to have fixed? An illness? Our finances? A relationship? What is a problematic part of our everyday life that we want changed? This is what the lepers were seeking when they cried out to Jesus for mercy. Leprosy had changed their very existence, and the grueling effects of the disease separated tem from the very life they had known. In some ways the government shutdown, the hit to the economy and the collapse of the housing market has been a kind of leprosy. Despite campaign promises, politicians will not be the saviors. Let us recognize our need for the Lord. Be receptive of the Lord's unconditional love. Be of service to those around us. Thus we will find out salvation in the love of God, shared by fellow Christians.