In the same way, in the Gospel of today (Luke 17:11-19), Jesus, the Omekennaya healed both Samaritan and Jewish lepers. Contrary to the attitude of the ungrateful Jews who went away, the gesture of the appreciative Samaritan who went back to thank Jesus for healing him, portrays once again the significance of gratitude. Though, it is characteristic of Luke’s Gospel to portray Samaritans as more understanding than Jews in matters pertaining to the Law, the message of today’s Gospel is clear. Like the unappreciative Jews, Christians take favours and gifts they receive from God for granted. The return of one of the ten lepers shows that sometimes we show appreciation for one out of ten gifts we received from God. “Go, your faith has saved you”, Jesus said to the Samaritan. This statement shows that an act of gratitude for any gift received from God, can bring even more superior gifts (e to dike na nke o mere o mekwa ozo), that of redemption and spiritual understanding. Little wonder, that St. Ignatius of Loyola considers gratitude the highest form of prayer; and St. Paul in 1 Thess 5:18 invites us to give thanks in all things because this is what God expects us to do in Christ Jesus. Today, as always, we ought to emulate Naaman and the Samaritan leper in the Gospel in showing gratitude for every grace we receive. Furthermore, just like Naaman took soil from Israel to build altar for the God of Israel, and the Samaritan came back to Jesus in show of his appreciation, the sense of gratitude should augment in us. This increase in our sense of gratitude to God should, in turn, motivate us to spread the Good News of Christ by giving attention to those who are isolated, helping those who languish in poverty, and preaching the gospel of peace and justice to our world.