MONDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2020
Mark 5, 1-20:
“Go home to your people and tell them what the Lord has done to you and that He has had mercy on you.”
Today’s Gospel tells us that, from the tombs, a man runs to meet Jesus and kneels before him asking for healing.
He is a man who, although he is alive, 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 rancor…!
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 entombs you: “You unclean spirit, come out of this man!
You will then 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 Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
