Hello Friend!!! Welcome you to this Powerful Catholic Reflection for the day 30 January 2023. I am very happy to see you coming to read this reflection. Today’s readings are called to reflect on the God’s Call and Mission.
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Readings of the Day
| First Reading | Hebrews 11:32-40 |
| Gospel Reading | Mark 5:1-20 |
Focus of the Today
Faith puts a clean spirit into us, strengthens us, and makes us worthy in God’s sight; But the unclean cannot stand the presence of the Holy One, and cannot resist the power of grace as well
Inspiring Catholic Reflection for the Day
In the gospel, Jesus encounters and confronts a man with an unclean spirit. There are very precise details regarding the possessed man’s condition. These are very indicative. They indicate what are some of the clear signs of being evil-possessed.
Living among the tombs indicates living aloof, cut off, and estranged from others. Shouting and crying indicate the spirit of grumbling, lamenting, and arguing. Bound in chains indicates being bound in the fetters of sin and evil. Not being controlled and subdued indicates undisciplined and unreined freedom.
Bruising himself and others as well indicates all the acts and habits of self-ruin and harm to others. Legion indicates that evil is not a single isolated act but is always a bundle, a pack, and a series of wrongs.
All these unclean forces always surmount and torment us also. All of us need healing, and need to be made clean. But many a time, like the possessed man, we do not want to be healed. And like the people, we do not value and appreciate the healing, because we are more concerned about the material interests (loss of swine), rather than the persons. Only faith makes us approach Jesus, seek his healing touch, and be clean.
Direction For Life
Let us come out of our wandering aimlessly among the tombs of our estrangement from God and others, and run to God to be restored to sanity and integrity.
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