It's the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's gospel reading comes from St. Luke 17:11-19. It is a very short reading with great lessons of gratitude to learn from. Most of us rely upon the favors ...

Today’s Gospel reading teaches us about gratitude. So often people receive grace from God, but only a very few people thank God for getting their special blessings. This is the story of the Cleansing ...

Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost. The main reading today is about the Healing of the Ten Lepers (Lk. 17:12-19). In this miracle, like most of the miracles in the Gospel, is presented ...

Today’s Gospel is a lesson in gratitude, especially in gratitude to God, which is its own separate category. Ten lepers approach Jesus. “Approach” is used advisedly, since Old Testament Law restricted ...

The gospel story of Jesus’ encounter with the 10 lepers is certainly about the importance of gratitude, but there are other dimensions to it as well. One of these is Jesus’ outreach to those on the ...

Cambridge, Mass.—As many readers will know, I have been studying Hinduism for over 40 years, since I first visited Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1973, to teach at St. Xavier’s School. Over the years, people ...

Whenever I read the story of the 10 lepers healed by Jesus in Luke, chapter 17, I always see myself as the only one who came back to say thank you. I'm a good guy, right? Thankful for my blessings?

We know this story only too well. Jesus healed 10 lepers. One, a Samaritan, came back to thank him. It's all about gratitude, right? Listen again, it's not quite that simple. When the Samaritan ...

Cape Cod, MA. Readers of my essays here over the years know that while I take various approaches to interreligious matters — my “portfolio” for In All Things — ranging from occasional current events ...