Day 6: The One Grateful Leper out of Ten

Welcome to Day #6 of our Heart-to-Heart Mini-Retreat!
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We at Catholic Holy Hour are offering eight days of prayer to the Sacred Heart honoring the apparitions of Jesus during the Octave of Corpus Christi (June 13-20, 1675… exactly 350 years ago!) in which He gave the Sacred Heart devotions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Sonnet Six from The Golden Chapel of the Sacred Heart [VIDEO – click on the play icon to start]

The Golden Chapel of the Sacred Heart

A Sonnet Crown to the Sacred Heart as Healer
VI

Thinking of His Heart, golden as a flare
upon the chapel statue, open wide
to priest’s incense or pilgrim’s trembling prayer,
imagine ten lepers, freed of their pride
all calling out: Have pity! Only one
returned. Let us pray: let that one be me,
saved by faith, drawn by gratitude to run.
Let’s be as loud with our thanks as our plea.
In fair Bethesda were five porticoes
at the Sheep Gate Pool, where an ill man lay.
Old and frail, his skin was corticose.
Three decades there; it seemed he’d rather stay,
complaining than be healed, but Christ said, Rise!
Like stirred water, Love came as a surprise.

—Annabelle Moseley, from Our House of the Sacred Heart

Ponder and Pray Questions:

  1. Read Luke 17:11-19 (see below)
  2. For what gifts from God are you most grateful?
  3. For what gifts have you forgotten to thank God, or not thanked Him enough?
  4. What word or phrase in the reading moved you most deeply?

Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.

One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Lk 17:11-19

Together we pray: Sacred Heart of Jesus, we place all our trust in Thee.

Let us contemplate as we listen to the song: “All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving.” As you listen, take a moment to truly dwell in thankfulness for each Person of the Blessed Trinity.

All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving [VIDEO – click on the play icon to start]

Together we pray: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto Thine.

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