A Story of Thanksgiving:

Today's Gospel reading for the Thanksgiving mass (Luke 17: 11-19)

As Jesus was entering a village, ten lepers met Him. They stood at a distance from Him and raised their voice, saying, "Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!" And when He saw them, He said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." As they were going, they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked Him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, "Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?" Then He said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has saved you."

 

The part of this story that really strikes me is the one who comes back, "glorifying God in a loud voice". We should be this man who falls to the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He heals us, maybe not of true leprosy, but of all the disgusting things we have done and of the deformed hideosity we become because of sin. We would be lepers without God's gift of mercy and love. 

 

Be that one who comes back to praise God and thank Him for His healing.