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Evangelio

Mc 1, 40-45

En aquel tiempo, se le acercó a Jesús un leproso para suplicarle de rodillas: “Si tú quieres, puedes curarme”. Jesús se compadeció de él, y extendiendo la mano, lo tocó y le dijo: “¡Sí quiero: sana!” Inmediatamente se le quitó la lepra y quedó limpio. 

Al despedirlo, Jesús le mandó con severidad: “No se lo cuentes a nadie; pero para que conste, ve a presentarte al sacerdote y ofrece por tu purificación lo prescrito por Moisés”. 

Pero aquel hombre comenzó a divulgar tanto el hecho, que Jesús no podía ya entrar abiertamente en la ciudad, sino que se quedaba fuera, en lugares solitarios, a donde acudían a él de todas partes.

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Gospel

Mk 1:40-45

A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said,
“If you wish, you can make me clean.”
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
touched the leper, and said to him, 
“I do will it. Be made clean.”
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, “See that you tell no one anything,
but go, show yourself to the priest
and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed;
that will be proof for them.”
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter.
He spread the report abroad
so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly.
He remained outside in deserted places,
and people kept coming to him from everywhere.

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Meditacion:

En tiempos de Jesús, la lepra era un dramático problema sanitario y social, tal vez como lo es para nosotros la pandemia del coronavirus. Se trataba de una severa enfermedad de la piel, vergonzante y en ocasiones muy contagiosa. Jesús supo presentarla como óptima parábola de la realidad del pecado. Como la lepra, el pecado es dañino, asocial, humillante y contagioso. Por eso, Jesús al intervenir en la curación de este leproso, y de otros que se le cruzaron en el camino, esté mostrando una realidad que alcanza más allá de una sanación física. La lepra desvela un mal más profundo. Nos pueden servir para orar estos detalles.

Jesús asume el riesgo de contagio y de impureza legal. Rompe el distanciamiento social impuesto, entonces como ahora, por las autoridades y se atreve a tocar al leproso. Eso estaba terminantemente prohibido. Pero Él no cura a distancia. Se salta la norma y se acerca. Comparte nuestra naturaleza infectada. La epidemia del amor de Jesús es más potente que la de la lepra.

Impone silencio al leproso una vez curado. ¿Por qué callar lo evidente? ¿Será porque no hay que hacer las obras buenas delante de los hombres para ser vistos y elogiados? Seguro que sí. Esta manera de proceder no cuadra con nuestra actual mentalidad. Hoy una obra vale en la medida en que se hable de ella, se publicite, corra por las redes sociales y se divulgue… La discreción no nos va. Tal vez porque no buscamos el bien, sino la auto exhibición.

Aunque hoy muchos busquen visibilidad social, son evidentes los inconvenientes de la publicidad. Quien desee hacerse famoso sabe que tiene que renunciar a momentos de paz y de privacidad. Podemos imaginarnos lo difícil que le sería a Jesús atravesar un lugar, habitado por gente entrometida e inoportuna. Así lo muestra el relato de hoy. Jesús era asediado por los muchos que se le agolpaban intentando ponerle las manos encima.

¿Se cansaba Jesús de los enfermos? La retirada de Jesús a la soledad del desierto no puede interpretarse como un gesto de hartazgo exasperado, sino una indicación, una enseñanza a seguir: La soledad es el complemento para las relaciones sociales. La soledad es necesaria para orar y el contacto con los demás es imprescindible para amar. Orar y amar, fe y caridad. Las dos son importantes.

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In Jesus' time, leprosy was a dramatic health and social problem, perhaps as the coronavirus pandemic is for us. It was a severe skin disease, embarrassing and at times highly contagious. Jesus knew how to present it as the optimal parable of the reality of sin. Like leprosy, sin is harmful, asocial, humiliating, and contagious. For this reason, Jesus, by intervening in the healing of this leper, and of others who crossed his path, is showing a reality that reaches beyond a physical healing. Leprosy reveals a deeper evil. These details can help us to pray.

Jesus assumes the risk of contagion and legal impurity. He breaks the social distancing imposed, then as now, by the authorities and dares to touch the leper. That was strictly prohibited. But He does not heal from a distance. He skips the rule and gets closer. He shares our infected nature. The epidemic of Jesus' love is more powerful than that of leprosy.

He imposes silence on the leper once cured. Why shut up the obvious? Is it because you don't have to do good works in front of men to be seen and praised? Surely yes. This way of proceeding does not square with our current mentality. Today a work is worth to the extent that it is talked about, advertised, runs through social networks and is disseminated ... Discretion does not suit us. Perhaps because we do not seek the good, but self-display.

Although today many seek social visibility, the disadvantages of advertising are obvious. Whoever wishes to become famous knows that he has to give up moments of peace and privacy. We can imagine how difficult it would be for Jesus to get through a place, inhabited by nosy and inopportune people. This is how today's story shows. Jesus was besieged by the many who crowded around him trying to get their hands on him.

Did Jesus get tired of the sick? The withdrawal of Jesus to the solitude of the desert cannot be interpreted as a gesture of exasperated exhaustion, but rather an indication, a teaching to follow: Solitude is the complement to social relationships. Solitude is necessary to pray and contact with others is essential to love. Pray and love, faith and charity. Both are important.