Prayer - June 26

The Gospel reading for today presents Jesus as one who freely gives healing and comfort to a man cursed with leprosy. Such a person could not live with his family, must leave his home, must wander and beg for food. He will ask the Savior not for money or food, but for healing: it is granted.

Let us pray:
We come before you, Lord, our hearts at times almost smothered with selfishness, unkindness, foolish arguments with loved ones, and much more of the same. But to learn that we can find forgiveness, find hope, that we can turn our lives around to sincere love, to courage in honesty with ourselves, and to live with trust in the Lord’s providence is a wonderful gift. “If you wish Lord, you can make me clean.” “I do wish it. Be made clean!” Rev. William Simmons, CSC