Weekly Bulletin

Gratitude completes healing

“The other nine, where are they?”

Jesus’ question echoes through time, touching the heart of anyone who has ever forgotten to say thank you in the midst of joy or relief. Ten lepers are healed—ten lives transformed—yet only one, a Samaritan, turns back to give thanks.

It’s easy to judge the nine who didn’t return, but perhaps we should first recognize ourselves in them. When something beautiful happens—an answer to prayer, a new opportunity, the lifting of a burden—it’s natural to rush forward, caught up in the excitement of what lies ahead. The lepers had so much to reclaim: families, homes, the touch of another hand, the dignity of being welcomed back into society. The whirlwind of restoration must have been overwhelming.

But in their haste to resume life, they forget to return to the source. They forget to acknowledge the Giver, focusing only on the gift.

The Samaritan, considered an outsider in so many ways, models the response of true faith: he turns back. His gratitude becomes worship. His healing is not just physical but spiritual—Jesus tells him, “Your faith has saved you.”

This story invites us to slow down in our own lives. Where have we rushed forward, basking in blessings but forgetting their source? How often have we taken joy in answered prayers without returning to the One who answered them?

Gratitude doesn’t just honour God; it completes our healing. In returning to Jesus, we’re not only acknowledging what has been done for us—we’re entering into deeper relationship with the One who does it.

So today, we might each pause and ask: What blessings have I received—and have I returned to give thanks?

Based on: Gospel focus – Where are they? by Greg Sunter

 May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved……….forever!  
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Jesus has made the Eucharist the summary of all his gifts, the supreme expression of his love for us. People mostly respond to these wonders of kindness with ingratitude or contempt. Listen to what Jesus said in these last times to Blessed Margaret Mary: “See, my daughter, how sinners treat me and despise me.” Then he showed himself to her as an Ecce Homo, lacerated and disfigured, completely covered with wounds and bruises, his adorable blood flowing all over his body; he said to her in a sad and sorrowing voice: “Is there no one who would have pity on me, who would want to suffer with me and take part in my sorrow, in this pitiable state in which sinners put me, especially at present?”

Jules Chevalier msc

Le Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, p.217ƒ., Paris 1900

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Amid the frenetic pace of today’s world and our obsession with free time, consumption and diversion, cell phones, and social media, we forget to nourish our lives with the strength of the Eucharist.

While no one should feel obliged to spend an hour in adoration each Thursday, the practice ought surely to be recommended. When we carry it out with devotion, in union with many of our brothers and sisters and discover in the Eucharist the immense love of the heart of Christ, we “adore, together with the Church, the sign and manifestation of the divine love that went so far as to love, through the heart of the incarnate Word, the human race”.

Pope Francis. Dilexit Nos: He Loved us, #85

On the Human and Divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ

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Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity

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