This mosaic depicting Christ healing the ten lepers (Luke 17:11–19) decorates the Monreale Cathedral in Sicily. The church features some of the largest and most important Greek mosaics of the twelfth ...

It is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel teaching is about the cleansing of ten lepers that you’ll read in Luke 17:11-19. If you read carefully this story, you’ll see how ...

There is an interesting story of Jesus healing ten lepers in Luke 17:11-19. Leprosy was highly contagious in biblical days and without cure. In fact, Jewish law required those infected to shout ...

No wonder Jesus had that strange vision earlier, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18). So here Jesus is, on his way to Jerusalem to meet his end at the cross, and ten lepers call ...

Of the ten lepers, the nine who were Israelites showed themselves to be ungrateful, while it was the Samaritan, an accursed foreigner, as we said earlier, who returned to voice his gratitude. The ...

The 10 lepers, after all, comprise a group of people excluded from community life because of their medical condition, and one leper was considered to have been doubly excluded because of his ...

Normally segregated for theological and historical reasons, the 10 lepers nevertheless found solidarity in their common illness and banishment from their communities and families.

In Luke 17:11-19, the story goes that there were 10 lepers cleansed by Jesus but only one returned to say thank you.

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 ...

For the ten lepers represent all of human nature—it was leprous with wickedness, carrying about with it the ugliness of sin, passing its life outside the heavenly city on account of its uncleanness, ...