c-blog, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW RE GOD IS MUCH MORE THAN WHAT WE DO KNOW ABOUT HIM, St. Jude M "...about stretching ones comfort zones...leprosy at that time could be any kind of skin ailment...you were excluded..required to shout "unclean" when approaching people...nobody would touch him, but Jesus did...sometimes we have to stretch our understanding of God..augustine.."what we don't know about God is much more than what we do know..." tendency to stay in one place, comfort zone..need to stretch..generosity..also how God is working in other religions..vatican 2 "anyone who seeks to live. A good life can be saved" diffrerent from "outside the church, no salvation"...now we realize the church is always reforming..comfort zones stretched..reaching out, prayer, many ways...come alive when we stretch..hearts willing to expand..may
"..Reading I 1 Jn 5:5-13 Beloved: Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and Blood The Spirit is the one who testifies, and the Spirit is truth So there are three who testify the Spirit, the water, and the Blood and the three are of one accord. If we accept human testimony the testimony of God is surely greater. Now the testimony of God is this, that he has testified on behalf of his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar by not believing the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life you who believe in the name of the Son of God. Responsorial Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 R. (12a) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem
Gospel Luke 5:12-16 It happened that there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns where Jesus was Jesus was; and when he saw Jesus he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said“I do will it. Be made clean.” And the leprosy left him immediately Then he ordered him not to tell anyone, but“Go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The report about him spread all the more and great crowds assembled to listen to him and to be cured of their ailments, but he would withdraw to deserted places to pray. ..."
