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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

11-19. And it came to pass, as He went to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men that were lepers, who ...

Our Sunday gospel today teaches us not only about gratitude to God, but that our Lord Jesus Christ shows his compassion not just to the chosen ones of Israel, but he also helps hated foreigners like ...