Lepers were one of those categories to which he was prevented from approaching the Lord.
Leprosy was considered a punishment from God for sins committed and is therefore unworthy to approach But God, who, ironically, was the only one who could cure the disease. In practice, a vicious circle.
Then came Jesus and the purification of one of them (Mk 1: 40-45) has shown that it is necessary to be "worlds" to get close to God, but the contact with the Lord that makes us pure, then exactly the opposite.
Two thousand years later, in some cases, such discrimination persist, and rules / charges to be met to be intimate with God that is manifested in the Eucharist. With these "beliefs" in my subconscious, Sunday, dur before Mass, I noticed that the tips of my fingers smell of onions. Although I had washed their hands thoroughly before leaving the house, the acrid smell of the vegetable had resisted.
I had to receive the sacrament of the Eucharist, but I had my doubts about the "method" to be used to accommodate the host.
Then I decided, I am lined up before the minister extraordinary that I laid the body of Christ in the palm of his left hand.
back to my place I thought of my fingers smell of onions and I have come in contact with Jesus I was still doubtful, but then I thought that I had cut the onion was served for the preparation of Sunday lunch. And then the doubts I had vanished. Jesus would have approved that day to meet a simple family man who had devoted a bit 'of his time to people he loves, by providing for a simple thing: a good lunch.
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