LIVE IT TODAY: Sunday, October 12, 2025 | Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
You are not forgotten. I see you, hear you, and desire not only to heal you—but to make you whole in gratitude and faith.
LIVE IT TODAY: Sunday, October 12, 2025 | Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
You are not forgotten. I see you, hear you, and desire not only to heal you—but to make you whole in gratitude and faith.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 17:11-19
As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem,
he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.
As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.
They stood at a distance from him and raised their voices, saying,
“Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!”
And when he saw them, he said,
“Go show yourselves to the priests.”
As they were going they were cleansed.
And one of them, realizing he had been healed,
returned, glorifying God in a loud voice;
and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him.
He was a Samaritan.
Jesus said in reply,
“Ten were cleansed, were they not?
Where are the other nine?
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”
Then he said to him, “Stand up and go;
your faith has saved you.”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
Gratitude is the doorway through which healing becomes salvation.
Ten lepers cry out for mercy from a distance. They are outcasts—physically disfigured, socially rejected, ritually unclean. Their plea is simple and desperate: “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” Jesus hears, speaks, and sends. No touch. No ritual. Just the word: “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they go, they are cleansed.
But one turns back. One sees beyond the healing to the Healer. His thanksgiving is not polite—it’s loud, embodied, exuberant. The Greek word eucharisteō means “to give thanks,” and from it we derive Eucharist. Gratitude, then, is not just manners—it’s worship. It transforms physical healing into relational communion.
Here the Gospel exposes a wound deeper than disease: ingratitude. Nine receive the gift but forget the Giver. They are healed in body yet remain distant in soul. The Samaritan—the outsider—is the only one who returns, and Jesus says something striking: “Your faith has saved you.” All ten were healed, but only one was made whole.
Gratitude is more than acknowledgment—it is the posture of salvation. It’s what closes the gap between receiving mercy and living in covenant. A heart that gives thanks is a heart that refuses to forget who the true center is.
In our homes, how often do we pray for God’s help but fail to return in gratitude? We rush to the next task, the next crisis, the next complaint. Gratitude arrests time. It turns ordinary moments into altars. It heals families of resentment and restores sight to see the Giver in the gift.
Parents, model gratitude openly. Thank God aloud for the small things—the meal, the laughter, even the trials that draw your family closer to Him. Teach your children that thanksgiving is not an event, but a lifestyle. Then pray over them by name, asking the Spirit to make them people who not only cry out for healing but live daily in joyful, saving gratitude.
“Every joy and suffering, every event and need can become the matter for thanksgiving which, sharing in that of Christ, should fill one’s whole life.” (CCC 2638)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Healing or Wholeness: Have you ever received God’s help but failed to return in gratitude? What kept you from doing so?
Eucharistic Living: How can you make thanksgiving a daily habit that transforms your heart and home?
Seeing the Giver: Where is God calling you to recognize His presence behind a recent blessing or challenge?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, name three things—big or small—for which you’re grateful. After each person shares, respond together, “Thank You, Jesus!”
Afterward, each family member should pray over another by name: Lord Jesus, pour out Your grace so that [Name] may live in gratitude. Free [Name] from forgetfulness or self-reliance. Strengthen [Name] to see You in every gift and to glorify You with joy that brings healing and unity to our family.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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