Reflectio for TUESDAY, 1st Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar
Today's Word of God
Mark 1:21-28
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.
The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out,
“What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
“Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!” The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.” News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.
Meditation on the Word of God
God made this world beautiful, and He created man as the most beautiful creature of all creation because man was created in God’s image.
And so when the devil wanted to tarnish and destroy God’s beautiful creation, the devil targeted man.
When man fell into the devil’s temptation, sin entered the world and into all creation.
And we see the destructive effects of sin in its many forms.
In the gospel, the evil spirit that possessed the man was an angry spirit who was shouting at Jesus and challenging Him.
That was just one of the many manifestations of evil in the world, and at times we feel that evil rules the world and holds many persons to be its followers and supporters.
Jesus came to break the power of evil and to establish the kingdom of God on earth.
Let us continue our fight against evil but refusing to give in to sin and to be united in Jesus in the mission of salvation.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice day.