What Are Your Demons?

What Are Your Demons?

 Summary: Jesus casts out a legion of demons in this Sunday’s gospel.

This week, we leave the poetic, often confusing words of John and head back to the more easily understood Book of Luke. As we jump into what the church calls, “Ordinary Time”, we also jump back into the Jesus of miracles and healing. And this week’s extraordinary story reminds us that Jesus can transform us and heal us, no matter what “demons” we struggle with. 

Jesus met this naked, mentally unbalanced, man who had been cast out of the community. He returns him to wholeness and bids him to return to his community and be accepted by them.

So many of us are searching for that belonging that only God can provide. We acquire demons that make us feel less alone, but ultimately keep us from the love of others and from living authentically as the person God created us to be.

This week, I’m asking myself, “What is the demon in my life that I most need Jesus to heal or cast out?” What action might Jesus be calling me to do to get the process started?

Deacon Joanie

Rev. Dcn. Joanie Cahill

Deacon

St. Augustine of Canterbury