{"id":25797,"date":"2025-10-10T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=25797"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:21:26","slug":"give-thanks-to-the-lord-demos-gracias-al-senor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/10\/10\/give-thanks-to-the-lord-demos-gracias-al-senor\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Thanks to the Lord \/Demos gracias al Se\u00f1or"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The readings on this 28th<\/sup>\u00a0Sunday in Ordinary Time\u00a0C place us in very deep water. From the Old Testament to the New, we are confronted with tremendous miracles that arise out of faith \u2013 It seems, though, not today. Is that true? Let us think. Let us pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, the prophet Elisha,<\/em>\u00a0successor to the great Elijah, and Naaman, a military leader of the Babylonians, a victim of leprosy, are seeking a cure. Elisha makes a simple demand of him, that he bathe in the Jordan. Naaman resists until his friends convince him to do so, and he is cured \u2013 and converted! He returned to Babylon with some of Israel\u2019s soil, swearing to adore no other God but Yahweh. What are we told? God does have the power to heal. Those close to Naaman helped him overcome his reluctance and believe. Does it convince us? \u2026 Good! Our God has unlimited power to heal, and as the Psalm today reinforces us, \u201c<\/em><\/strong>The Lord has revealed [also] to the nations his saving power.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>He is the God of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, Paul<\/em>‘s letter to Timothy\u00a0shows that God does not always reveal his power, even to His beloved. We must grant Him that. His ways are difficult to fathom. In the course of his discovery, Paul wrote that chains could not impede the Gospel. W<\/strong>e add, nor could his death. Paul left us profound truths about God, that suffering for those to whom he preached, dying for them, meant to live forever.<\/strong> He was chained, but the word of God was not.\u00a0\u201cTherefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0We die to live. Can our faith reach that? Pail challenges to keep\u00a0the goal of life eternal, an unshakeable article of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, our Gospel,\u00a0<\/em>Jesus’s healing, and suppose we accept leprosy as an image of the damage of sin. Suppose it is we who are afflicted and who, among others, beg forgiveness from Jesus, and it is\u00a0given. Then today\u2019s Gospel can be taken as meant to reawaken in us, too, gratitude for being healed from sin. Jesus had been passing, and we, in repentant faith, had been forgiven. Jesus yearned for thanks after His astounding healing, not from one but all ten leprous souls!\u00a0\u00a0Aren\u2019t we among the healed?\u00a0\u00a0Saved souls owe Jesus gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord hear our thanks. Be always with us!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Demos gracias al Se\u00f1or<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Las lecturas de este 28\u00ba Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario C nos sit\u00faan en aguas muy profundas. Desde el Antiguo Testamento hasta el Nuevo, nos enfrentamos a tremendos milagros que surgen de la fe, aunque parece que no, en nuestros d\u00edas. \u00bfSer\u00e1 cierto? Pensemoslo. Oremos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primero, el profeta Eliseo,<\/em> sucesor del gran El\u00edas, y Naam\u00e1n, l\u00edder militar de los babilonios, v\u00edctima de la lepra, buscando una cura. Eliseo le exige simplemente, que se ba\u00f1e en el Jord\u00e1n. Naam\u00e1n se resiste hasta que sus amigos lo convencen de hacerlo, y se cura y se convierte. Regres\u00f3 a Babilonia con parte de la tierra de Israel, jurando no adorar a ning\u00fan otro Dios sino a Yahveh. \u00bfQu\u00e9 nos dicen? Que Dios tiene poder para sanar. Que los cercanos a Naam\u00e1n lo ayudaron a vencer su renuencia y creer. \u00bfNos convence? \u2026 \u00a1Bien! Nuestro Dios tiene un poder ilimitado para sanar, y como nos refuerza el Salmo de hoy, “<\/em><\/strong>El Se\u00f1or ha revelado [tambi\u00e9n] a las naciones su poder salvador”. <\/em>\u00c9l es Dios de todos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En segundo lugar, Pablo a Timoteo<\/em> muestra que Dios no siempre revela su poder, ni siquiera para su amado. Debemos concederle eso. Sus caminos son dif\u00edciles de comprender. En el curso de su descubrimiento, Pablo escribi\u00f3 que las cadenas no pod\u00edan impedir el Evangelio. Agregamos, ni tampoco su muerte. Pablo nos dej\u00f3 profundas verdades sobre Dios, que el sufrimiento por aquellos a quienes predicaba, morir por ellos, significaba vivir para siempre. Estaba encadenado, pero la palabra de Dios no. “Por lo tanto, lo soporto todo por el bien de los elegidos”.<\/em> Morimos para vivir. \u00bfPuede nuestra fe alcanzar eso? Pablo desaf\u00eda a mantener la meta de la vida eterna como un art\u00edculo de fe inquebrantable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tercer lugar, nuestro Evangelio, <\/em>la curaci\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas, y supongamos que aceptamos la lepra como una imagen del da\u00f1o del pecado. Supongamos que somos nosotros los que estamos afligidos y quienes, entre otros, pedimos perd\u00f3n a Jes\u00fas, y se nos da. Entonces el Evangelio de hoy puede ser tomado como destinado a despertar en nosotros tambi\u00e9n, la gratitud por haber sido sanados del pecado. Jes\u00fas hab\u00eda estado falleciendo, y nosotros, en fe arrepentida, hab\u00edamos sido perdonados. \u00a1Jes\u00fas anhelaba dar gracias despu\u00e9s de su asombrosa sanidad, no de una, sino de las diez almas leprosas!  \u00bfNo estamos entre los sanados?  Las almas salvas le deben gratitud a Jes\u00fas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Se\u00f1or, escucha nuestro agradecimiento. \u00a1Est\u00e9 siempre con nosotros!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB The readings on this 28th\u00a0Sunday in Ordinary Time\u00a0C place us in very deep water. From the Old Testament to the New, we are confronted with tremendous miracles that arise out of faith \u2013 It seems, though, not today. Is that true? Let us think. Let us pray. First, the prophet Elisha,\u00a0successor to the great Elijah, and Naaman, a military leader … Continuar leyendo Give Thanks to the Lord \/Demos gracias al Se\u00f1or<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-6I5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25921,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25797\/revisions\/25921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}