Comments on: Monday 1/30/2017 – Driving out demons, despair https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Renata https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6281 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:54:46 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6281 Dan, thank you for these very eise words. Let’s not. Allow the demons to lead us into rationalizing everything. Let’s never forget that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” God bless!

]]> By: Mark https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6280 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:47:39 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6280 Hey Dan,

You asked a simple question concerning why the people of Gerasene asked Jesus to leave. I suppose if you read a bit further in Mark you’ll find the answer. Mk 8:29 Jesus asks, “Who do you say that I am?”
One could assume that the people of Gerasene were Gentiles, since they were raising swine. They weren’t looking for a Messiah.
So, who was Jesus to them? He was a Jew who some how cured a crazy man. A crazy man that, for the most part, stayed away from them. The cost to them was high, 2,000 swine. The benefit to them was what? And if you were raising cattle, would you want Jesus to stay?

Thoughts?

Mark

]]> By: Skip https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6279 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:48:56 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6279 Thanks Dan, well written. “Content to deal with our inner deamons” “Our demons can trick us into rationalize our thoughts and behavoirs”. I think I have a “clever demon” I need to shed. Your reflection helped me recognized my demon for what it is.

]]> By: Laura https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6278 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:52:18 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6278 Thank you Dan. What a tremendous reflection about Jesus’ love for us. It is certainly applicable to today’s times, maybe even more so. We are living in times where demons set up camp and are almost welcomed in our lives. I pray for the courage to ask Jesus to cleanse me of mine.

]]> By: Jack Findlay https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6276 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:50:03 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6276 So much scripture challenges our understanding. Your words help me get a grasp.

]]> By: Alevi https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6275 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:25:51 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6275 Nice article Dan. It always made me wonder why the demons chose the pigs. Did they get killed after the herd die? etc, etc.

]]> By: O https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6274 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 07:39:16 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6274 Hello.

Thank you so much for that.

It’s very insightful.

Once again, thank you and God bless.

]]> By: eli https://www.acatholic.org/driving-out-demons-despair/#comment-6273 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:30:18 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59610#comment-6273 Lovely one Dan. Hope for those who are lost. With Jesus Christ by your side, you have nothing to fear. Dare to ask Him for help and see the sunbeam entering your life and dispelling the darkness in you. God bless all

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