By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - It really happened, it wasn’t a parable, that once Jesus healed ten lepers, but only one returned to give thanks. It happened in God’s design, and Luke took care to record it (17:11-19), to teach us something. But what?... Perhaps, that Our Lord prefers to do good quietly: he made no fuss about healing them but simply told them to show themselves to the priest. ...