Outcasts no longer are now included - Sunday's gospel

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6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 1:40-45: Again we see Jesus confronting the ‘uncleanness’ associated with demonic control of human life. 
This ‘leprosy’ (any skin infection rather than our understanding of Hansen’s disease) was the one illness regarded as punishment from God with extreme social and religious exclusion as prescribed.  Yet this leper approaches Jesus in defiance of all the barriers placed against his action.  The power to heal leprosy belongs to God alone, and the only issue is whether Jesus ‘wants to’.  Again we see the flow of healing is from Jesus to the unfortunate leper, and not infection flowing in the opposite direction.

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