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Editor's Note: On the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (next weekend), our Gospel reading is Mark 1:40-45 where Jesus compassionately cures the leper. Read more about it below.

The healing is effortless. The healing is perfect. It is instantly effective. And his desire to touch this defiled outcast shows, again, his yearning for a close relationship with sinners. At the end of this sermon, I’m going to seek to show how this account is written to give us a sense of an amazing reversal. Jesus took the outcast’s place as an outcast himself. Therefore, this is a beautiful picture of the gospel of Christ’s compassionate work for sinners like you and me. But it’s only available for those who know that that is their true spiritual condition apart from Christ. How we really are the spiritual lepers and we need him to touch us and we need him to save us.

 I. The Leper’s Plea 

So we begin with the leper’s plea. Look at verse 40, “A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, ‘If you are willing, you can make me clean.'” So we come to the terrors of this disease, leprosy. I’ve already described somewhat how awful this disease was seen to be in Jesus’ day. The word leprosy comes from the Greek word lepros meaning scale, like the scales that fell from Saul’s eyes after his conversion. It gives us a sense of the scaly nature of a leper’s skin because of the ravages of the disease. READ MORE

Focus Group/Conversations regarding our Live-streaming Mass

For those who participate in the 10am Mass livestream from St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, Mr. Scott Masteller, a consultant, is keen to connect with you. Your feedback is invaluable in enhancing the Mass experience each week. If you are a viewer, I encourage you to click the link below and submit your name and contact information so he can learn your thoughts and perceptions. Positive feedback and constructive suggestions contribute to making the Holy Mass even more meaningful for viewers like you. May this endeavor which started 85 years ago continue to touch hearts and deepen the spiritual lives of those in our faith community.

Ignatian Perspective

Hearts on Fire: Applying the Spiritual Exercises in the 21st Century

by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Jan 29, 2024 |

I hear a common refrain among young adults today: “I love attending retreats, but I haven’t had the time or the opportunity since I finished college. And it’s hard to find fellow young adults to go with. Besides, good retreats are a long drive away.” 

A group of Jesuits solved this Millennial – Gen Z problem with one easy fix: day-long traveling retreats, called Hearts on Fire (HoF), for young adults at local parishes. 

Last summer, we traveled through three cities in the Midwest, offering retreats to spiritually seeking but time starved young adults. We met them where they are, quite literally, and offered day long retreats at their local community. Because they were accessible, requiring minimal commitment in terms of time and money, and easy to coordinate with friends, they were quite popular with young adults. Through talks, personal prayer, small group sharing, and the sacraments, we deepened our relationship with God and with each other at the HoF retreats this past summer. Specifically, the content of the retreat included four talks corresponding to the four weeks (parts) of the Spiritual Exercises: meditations on purpose, discipleship, sin, and God’s love. We hoped that the day-long retreat would be just the start, or a small step along the way, of a lifelong journey with Christ. READ MORE

From the Environmental Justice Committee

The Environmental Justice Committee offers for your reflection this passage from Pope Francis's exhortation, Laudato Si (2015): 

Reflection 16 Stewardship of biodiversity 

The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate together; we cannot adequately combat environmental degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: “Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest.” (Bolivian Bishops Conference, Pastoral Letter).

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Embracing God's Gifts Scripture Study

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Young Adults: Never on Sunday

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Young Adults: Never on Sunday

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In the Media

Remembering CBS Sunday Morning’s Charles Osgood, a Jesuit grad and radio icon

Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," poses for a portrait on the set in New York on March 28, 1999. Osgood, who anchored the popular news magazine's for more than two decades, was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

“Nothing could be finer than a crisis that is minor in the morning.” This spoof of the verses of “Carolina in the Morning” was one of Charles Osgood’s daily gifts to us via “The Osgood File” on over 400 radio stations along the CBS Radio Network each morning on our commute to work. (He later used it as the title of a book.) The announcement of his passing on Jan. 23 at the age of 91 hit me like it did so many people: A good friend is gone. That is how good radio works. One friend, talking to another.

I got to know Charlie, as we called him, when I was a young sales executive at the CBS Radio Network in the early 90’s. He was already famous, an Emmy Award-winning journalist (five times!) who hosted the above-mentioned “The Osgood File” on radio and would later also host “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades. His obituary from the Associated Press called him “ CBS News’ poet-in-residence.” READ MORE