Homily
for Monday
3d
Week of Lent
March
24, 2025
2
Kgs 5: 1-15
Luke
4: 24-30
Provincial
House, New Rochelle
The Cleansing of Naaman
It
must have been humbling for Naaman, a great general, to realize that he’d
become a leper. Humbling, too, to be
given advice by a slave girl. Humbling
again to go to a foreign country, one he’d probably fought, to seek
healing. The final humiliation, as we
heard, was to be told simply to bathe in the Jordan, without any elaborate
ritual or special attention from the prophet.
But from Naaman’s humility came salvation.
In
Nazareth the people couldn’t see how the young man they’d known for decades
could be God’s voice for them. They
couldn’t see that God might act to save foreigners. They weren’t humble enuf for that, and they
missed out on the salvation that Jesus brings.
On
the 24th of the month, we remember her who was the Lord’s humble handmaid, and
thereby became the mother of our Salvation.
In
lowliness, humility, and simplicity, God saves us.
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