Today, from the Gospel of St. Matthew 8, we receive the testimony of Christ our God healing the leper. The leper comes to Jesus with incredible faith and the appropriate disposition. He says to our Lord, "If you will, you can make me clean." His faith was that Jesus had both the authority and the ability to cleanse him and free him from both his great suffering and shame. But, like us, there was certainly room for his faith to continue to grow to know more about Him. When we see the healing of the leper, we see the work of salvation daily in the lives of every soul in Christ. Today we ask our Lord to grant us the same disposition of the leper, the faith as well as the acknowledgment our need for Christ's merciful healing of our soul. May we come to Christ saying, "If you will, you can make me whole." To which He will answer, "Of course, I will. Be healed."