The gospel invites us to enter the mystery of our own disabilities, hidden or otherwise. We need not fear those moments of being secret “lepers” ourselves, those parts of our being we hide away and lock up: our failures and sins, our vanities and deceptions, our jealousies and fakery. [Christ] will reach out to touch us there. It is only our denial that prevents the cure.
–John Kavanaugh, The World Encountered: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures, 27
