Praise:

Blessed and glorious are you,O God of all creation,for the bright dawn of salvation that has broken into our life.

Justice – Faith:

In today’s Gospel, the Jewish Laws unjustly ostracized Lepers. Such injustices cannot be recognized because there is no compassion for the needy. God’s Justice must always go hand-in-hand with God’s compassion. To have one without the other is not living fully the Gospel values of Christ.

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The grace of the Spirit cannot remain with us without the practice of the commandments, but the practice of the commandments is of no help or advantage to us without the grace of God.

- St. Symeon the New Theologian