EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR (Vol. 2, n. 12)
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
February 12-18, 2006
“He Touched Him”
(+) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
(A moment of silence)
SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or any appropriate song may be sung.
WORDS OF POPE PAUL VI
“Lepers are cleansed!”: this is the sign of his Messiahship that Jesus gives to John the Baptist’s disciples who had come to question him. And Jesus entrusts his own mission to his disciples: “Preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand’ … Cleanse lepers.” … But the loving gesture of Christ, who approaches lepers comforting and curing them, has its full and mysterious expression in the passion. Tortured and disfigured by the sweat of blood, the flagellation, the crowning of thorns, the crucifixion, the rejection by the people he had helped, he identified himself with lepers, becomes the image and symbol of them, as the prophet Isaiah had foreseen, contemplating the mystery of the Servant of the Lord: He had no form or comeliness … He was despised and rejected by men … as one from whom men hide their faces … we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But it is just from the wounds in Jesus’ tortured body and from the power of his resurrection that life and hope gush for all men stricken by evil and infirmity.
SILENT ADORATION
OPENING PRAYER
Leader: All-powerful God,
by the suffering and death of your Son,
strengthen and protect us in our weakness.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.
Assembly: Amen.
Part I
JESUS MASTER TRUTH
Listening to the Word
FIRST READING: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
GOSPEL READING: Mk 1:40-45
PERSONAL REFLECTION
(As a tool for personal reflection, please visit the PDDM Website: www.pddm.org // www.pddm.us for BREAKING THE BREAD OF THE WORD [Series 4, n. 12]: A Lectio Divina Approach to the Sunday Liturgy. The Biblico-Liturgical Reflections are an aid for a deeper understanding of the Gospel reading.)
SONG: Any Eucharistic hymn or suitable song of praise may be sung.
Part II
JESUS MASTER WAY
Confrontation with the Word
POINTS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART
Leader: We open our hearts to listen to the promptings of the living Word. Let us ask ourselves with limpid honesty:
1. How do we react to people physically and spiritually afflicted with leprosy? Do we recognize the leprous elements in our modern society who bear the detestable sores of isolation and rejection, e.g. the poor and destitute, the homeless, the unattractive, the AIDS victims, etc.?
2. Did we ever experience being in a leprous condition ourselves? How did we react to the rejection, disgust and alienation imposed upon us by people repelled by our detestable situation?
3. In our experience of physical and spiritual affliction and when we are ravaged with the “leprosy of sin”, do we turn to Jesus for healing? Do we pray that he may extend his hands to touch us with his healing power? Do we believe in faith that from the wounds in Jesus’ tortured body and from the power of his resurrection life and hope gush forth for the healing of those stricken with evil and infirmity?
PRAYER
(Adapted from Henri Nouwen’s Prayer “Lord, Bring Help Against the Darkness”)
Leader: Dear Lord,
you revealed that God is the God of life,
in whom no death can be found.
I pray, touch our death-oriented world and call forth new life.
Bring life, joy, and new vitality
to those who are walking in the shadow of death,
to those who are ill and dying,
to those who are depressed and in despair,
to those who are resentful and violent.
Do not let your people be conquered by the dark forces of death,
but let your life-giving power enter their bodies, hearts and minds,
and let them recognize you as the Son of the Living God.
Assembly: Lord Jesus, if you will, you can make me clean.
Touch me; heal me.
Cleanse me from the “leprosy of sin”.
Free me from the sores of rejection and isolation.
You are the wounded healer and the bearer of new life
by your passion and death on the cross
and by the power of your resurrection.
You live forever and ever.
Amen.
SONG: Any suitable song may be sung.
Part III
JESUS LIFE
Acting upon the Word
PERSONAL PRAYER
CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST: The Mysteries of Light of the Rosary may be prayed in part or in full.
THE WAY OF SOLIDARITY: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
Leader: God, our loving Father, you console us in our sufferings. We pray for all the sick. Be near to them and give them health and consolation. We turn to you and say:
(R.) LORD, TOUCH US WITH YOUR HEALING HAND.
1. When we are sick and in pain.
2. When we are deeply troubled.
3. When we are lonely and rejected.
4. When we are disfigured by the leprosy of sin.
5. When we are crushed by the sinful structures of our society.
6. When we are too weak to respond to your love.
7. When we are too feeble to extend a helping hand to others.
(Other prayers may be added.)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Leader: Merciful Father,
fill our hearts with your healing love
and keep us faithful to the gospel of Christ.
Give us the grace to detest the leprosy of sin
and heal us of all our infirmities.
May we be totally united with Christ
for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God forever and ever.
Assembly: Amen.
FINAL SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or song of praise may be sung.
Prepared by Sr. Mary Margaret Tapang PDDM
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