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Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119) 

Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me embrace the holiness of your healing, no matter how unfamiliar or uncomfortable it is…

7/12/2023

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Gospel Mystery of the Day              Wednesday, July 12, 2023
                                                       
Good Morning!      
Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path. (Psalm 119)
 
Matthew 8:28-34
Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me embrace the holiness of your healing, no matter how unfamiliar or uncomfortable it is…
 
Unfortunately, our human condition of having free will sometimes mean that we choose familiar evils over divine Grace.  When Jesus exorcised and healed the two demoniacs near Gadara, he changed the familiar social and spiritual environment of the area.  The people there responded to this grace-full transformation not with gratitude, but with anger.  They had come to accept the destructive demons in the two men they had pushed to the margins of their town and were so familiar and perhaps fascinated with their scintillating and horrific presence, that they reacted to Jesus’ healing touch with fear,  grief, and frustration at the change in the status quo. Instead of celebrating the restored sanity of two members of their community, the villagers raged at Jesus for getting rid of their ‘entertainment’ and drove him away.  What, or Who are my ‘pet peeves’, that I am preferring to the peace of the Holy Spirit at home within me? Will I, like the people of Gadara, run Jesus out of my life to return to my old ways? Or Will I welcome Jesus’ cleansing of these prejudices, projects and projections, and the wholeness/ holiness that replaces them?  Is holiness too unusual for my liking, or will I welcome and embrace Jesus’/ God’s healing touch?  Holy Spirit of Jesus, help me embrace the holiness of your healing, no matter how unfamiliar or uncomfortable it is. 
 
Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. (Psalm 33:18,19)
 
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of his ignominies and sufferings. 
St. Paul of the Cross
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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