Whether to a husband, wife, children, parent, friend, or a stranger, love and compassion are needed to support our life and relationships. It must not surprise us that Jesus showed deep love and compassion to the leper. The leper had come to him alone because his condition didn't permit him to be around people openly.
We celebrate this weekend as the Sunday of the Word of God. In its wisdom, the church seeks to remind us of the special place of the Word of God for us to reflect and resolve to make time to know it and to make it the guiding principles for our lives, to love it, taste it, and savor it, live by it.