Gospel: Mark 1: 40-45
From the very beginning of Jesus' ministry of healing, he commands those healed to tell no one about it. As in today's Gospel, the healed person is commanded to perform the required rituals of thanksgiving and visit to the priests for their healing, but also to tell no one about it. We might well wonder why Jesus makes such a request, especially since no one obeys this command.
It is worth looking about at the many today who go about Christian-land on book tours, talk shows, made for tv movies, and the various strata of social media talking on and on about their experience with Jesus. But the reality is that these all are less about Jesus and more about the person healed, more about us. What invariably happens is that such figures eventually fall from grace as it was in reality all about themselves and not about Jesus.
But if we follow the command of Jesus we live a life of humility. We give humble, private thanksgiving to God and then go about living a life of mercy caring for others. In living this way we are truly healed and live the core of God's law - loving God and loving others - with no thought of self-interest or self-promotion at all.
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