Directions

1. Have your students read the Gospel passage, or read it aloud to your students, and then answer the focus questions.
2. Review and discuss the answers when they have completed the focus questions.
3. Have your students read the passages from Leviticus in Counter-Cultural and then have them respond to the reflection questions.
4. When Complete, call on students to share and discuss their answers with the class.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. He asked Jesus to make him clean. His question shows that he has great faith in Jesus.
2. He stretched out His hand, touched the man, and said, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
3. He told him to not tell anyone about the healing, but to instead go to the priest and offer himself for cleansing as Moses prescribed. Accept reasoned answers.
4. He publicized (told everyone) what Jesus had done.
5. It became hard for Jesus to enter into a town because everyone had heard about his healing. People came to Him for healing even before He entered into the towns.

Counter-Cultural

1. The reading from Leviticus addresses the laws concerning leprosy. Anyone who had leprosy had to follow these laws.
2. Jesus broke the social norms and laws surrounding leprosy in order to show compassion to the man with leprosy and heal him.
3. Accept reasoned answers.
4. Accept reasoned answers.
5. Accept reasoned answers.
6. Accept reasoned answers.

Directions

• Read the Gospel passage aloud to your students as they follow along. Then discuss the focus and reflection questions with them as a class.
• Next, read aloud to your students St. Damien of Molokai and then have them color in the picture of St. Damien.
• When they are finished, have your students complete the reflection Be Like Jesus.
• When they have finished, call on students to share and discuss their answers.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. He asked Jesus to make him clean. His question shows that he has great faith in Jesus.
2. He stretched out His hand, touched the man, and said, “I do will it. Be made clean.”
3. He told him to not tell anyone about the healing, but to instead go to the priest and offer himself for cleansing as Moses prescribed. Accept reasoned answers.
4. He told everyone what Jesus had done.