Tenth Leper Club

Spiritual Experience / by jwattles

A 13th-century bishop gives instructions to clerics who have leprosy

Today’s universal family event is a meeting of the Tenth Leper Club. After Jesus healed ten lepers, they all went joyously on their way, but one of them turned back, came to Jesus and gave thanks and worship.

It’s so easy to enjoy a blessing, even appreciate a blessing, without adequately responding. For a major blessing, thanks are not enough; even loving in return does not fully express . . . what fully mobilized worship communicates.

To get there, we have to overcome the laziness of material inertia, check into Personality Central (also known as God), and allow the spontaneous work of soul and spirit to happen without trying to analyze or identify or control.

Watch the 10:29 video or listen to the podcast episode.

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1078818

(Detail) Detail of a historiated initial ‘C'(lericus): Clerics with leprosy receiving instruction from a bishop [1] (See also THE MEDIEVAL GLOBE, ed. MONICA H. GREEN, vol 1, 2014, p.309)

Title of Work: Omne Bonum
Author: Palmer, James le
Production: England (London); 1360-1375
Language: Latin

From The British Library;
Record Number: c6541-07;
Shelfmark: Royal 6 E. VI;
Page Folio Number: f.301ra.

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