28TH SUNDAY YEAR C 12TH OCTOBER 2025

God’s mercy is the key point of this Sunday. God saving grace and mercy know no boundaries, colour and religion. Jesus Christ, God made man has come to save all humanity. In our first reading of today, Naaman is an example of the fact that God’s saving grace is limitless. But unlike the belief at the time of Naaman that God can only be worship in Jerusalem, the salvation of the Lord can be found in all nations and in every place. God is a God of the whole universe.

In the Second reading, Paul though in chains, is admonishing the faith to cultivate the virtues of truthfulness and perseverance. Endurance in time of persecutions, challenges and total trust in God is what will obtain for us the salvation of the Lord. We should not give up hope in God, for God is always faithful to His promises. Christ is always faithful to those who believe and put their trust in Him.

The Gospel, affirms the fact that God mercy, grace and salvation is universal. Nobody is excluded, all are destined to be save. Jesus manifested this, by curing the ten lepers without asking for their identities. Only one of them a Samaritan came back to give thanks. The Samaritan that went back to Jesus was not only cured but he also received salvation. “Rise and go your faith has made you well”.

Here we see the God’s power in action over unclean spirits, Christ Jesus manifesting his nature of God, by recreating and restoring humanity to its original nature. “All that God created is Good”. Jesus Christ as the saviour of the world came to save all humanity. Since God’s saving power is for us all, we can and should only respond by and through, ’thanksgiving’. The Eucharist, is the true worship of God. We offer Jesus Christ to God, through our sacred action of thanksgiving. This is our profession of faith that God is absolute and that only God must be worshiped. Our worship is what earns us all the comforts, strength and all the graces needed to withstand the world.

So like the Samaritan and Naaman, who are cured and saved, we have to be grateful to God for sending His only Son as our saviour and we in our turn have to worship in thanksgiving and also spread the Good News of the salvation we have received.

Fr. Jerome Otitoyomi DUKIYA. C.S.Sp.