Visions for the Church by Paul M. Zulehner

Author:Paul M. Zulehner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783843610865
Publisher: Schwabenverlag
Published: 2018-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

Life as the center of the pastoral work of Jesus

Numerous healing tales which are told about Jesus show that God worries about people’s life. From many possible appropriate stories, the cure of a leper is quoted here as reported in the Gospel of Matthew (Mt 8:1–4). I choose this event because it inspired a Benedictine monk of the island of Reichenau to represent it as an illumination. He supplies us for today a fascinating vision of the Church. Here is the picture (Codex Echternach, 1040) and the biblical report:

When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him;

and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.”

He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.

We will meditate on the four (groups of) people one by one: The leper, the central figure Jesus, the two persons behind Jesus and in the background the people following – therefore us.

The leper

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