RICARDO SALUDO
In today’s mass readings, we encounter two ways of dealing with lepers, both from God. The first reading from the Book of Leviticus, which detailed hundreds of Jewish laws, decreed that lepers should wear torn garments to show their sores, and cry out, “Unclean, unclean.” Thus, people who see and hear the afflicted stay away. To compel the people to follow, this rule, as with many others, are attributed to “the Lord.”