MONDAY 1st FEBRUARY 2021
Mark 5, 1-20:
“Go home to your family and tell them what the Lord has done for you and that he has had mercy on you.”
Today’s Gospel tells us that, from among the tombs, a man runs to encounter Jesus and kneels before him asking for his healing. He is a man who, though he lives, is dead: “he dwelt in the tombs” and always “night and day he walked in the tombs”.
The power of Jesus casts from him the diabolical possession that chains him and the people of that place find him “sitting with Jesus, clothed and in his right mind.
How many times in our life do “we dwell and walk in the tombs”: we dwell and walk in sadness, in despair, in fear, in disillusionment, in hatred, in rancour?
Run to Jesus today and kneel before Him.
Jesus is stronger than all your “deaths” and all your “graves.
And Jesus will also say to everything that buries you: “You unclean spirit, come out of this person!
You will be able to tell with joy what the Lord is doing with you and the compassion and mercy he has had and always has for you.
Good day.
Antonio Sanjuan Marin, cmf
