The secret that cannot be silenced or suppressed
Prayer
Contemporary Lectionary Prayers
Cycle B
Gospel Note:
This passage presents a conventional miracle story with Mark's
distinctive "secrecy" motif inserted. Having cleansed the leper,
Jesus charges him to tell the priest about it but otherwise to
keep quiet. The man proceeds to spread the word, attracting to
Jesus the kind of attention that the latter apparently had wanted
to avoid.
Liturgical Color:
Green
Suggested Hymns:
Oh, That The Lord Would Guide My Ways
God The Father, Be Our Stay
Fight The Good Fight
Thee Will I Love, My Strength
Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise
O Christ, The Healer, We Have Come
Epiphany 6
The leper has been suffering for a long time.
He was probably desperate.
But what was he like as a person?
We know how he probably reacted when he became
sick. Nothing would keep him from finding a cure!
But nothing worked.
He went to Jesus to be healed.
Many people seem to have the world by the tail
until they are stricken by illness or some
other calamity.
Then they become desperate.
We know that you meet us in times
of desperation, Lord.
But we would be more healthy if we would turn
to you when things were going well.
Some people become bitter in their moment of
distress and others become better.
Lord, help us to become better when
challenges come to us in life.
Cleanse us. Restore us. Set us free.
Amen.
This passage presents a conventional miracle story with Mark's
distinctive "secrecy" motif inserted. Having cleansed the leper,
Jesus charges him to tell the priest about it but otherwise to
keep quiet. The man proceeds to spread the word, attracting to
Jesus the kind of attention that the latter apparently had wanted
to avoid.
Liturgical Color:
Green
Suggested Hymns:
Oh, That The Lord Would Guide My Ways
God The Father, Be Our Stay
Fight The Good Fight
Thee Will I Love, My Strength
Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise
O Christ, The Healer, We Have Come
Epiphany 6
The leper has been suffering for a long time.
He was probably desperate.
But what was he like as a person?
We know how he probably reacted when he became
sick. Nothing would keep him from finding a cure!
But nothing worked.
He went to Jesus to be healed.
Many people seem to have the world by the tail
until they are stricken by illness or some
other calamity.
Then they become desperate.
We know that you meet us in times
of desperation, Lord.
But we would be more healthy if we would turn
to you when things were going well.
Some people become bitter in their moment of
distress and others become better.
Lord, help us to become better when
challenges come to us in life.
Cleanse us. Restore us. Set us free.
Amen.
