Friday after Epiphany
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”
The Gospel according to Luke 5:12-16
Lectio: What does the text say?
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.”
After this text, what are the words, phrases, or actions that draw your attention, your interest?
Meditatio: What does God say in the text?
What is my leprosy, my sicknesses, my problems, my fears, my temptations? Am I able to search for the Lord and to say to him from my heart, with humility and conscientiously, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”? The Lord, acts through other brothers and sisters. Do I accept other people as if they were the Lord so that they heal my leprosy, my sicknesses, my problems, my fears, temptations?
After the message of this text, what is your meditation, your personal reflection?
Oratio: What do I say to the Lord?
O Lord, my humanity and weakness fill me with leprosy, sicknesses, problems, fears, temptations, sins and I believe that I do not have the integrity, the value to ask you for help. And you, you are always there so faithful to us, once and again, only to tell us, “I love you” and “I want to help and heal you.” O God! This is your greatest desire, to rescue us and bring us by the true way to your Kingdom. Thank you, I love you, Lord.
After the message of this text, what is your personal prayer?
Include your personal intentions.
Amen.
Contemplatio: How do I internalize the Word of God?
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”
(Repeat)
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”
“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean”
After the message of this text, what is the word, phrase, paragraph, or action that helps you remember this text?
Actio: What do I promise God?
The Lord asks us to be verb, action, to offer him all our sorrows, problems, fears, temptations, sins. Take a few minutes and leave all this in his hands. Close your eyes that in your mind and heart resound these words, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
After the message of this text, what is the concrete action that he invites you to do?
