28 January 2019
BEELZEBUL IS IN HIM (Mark 3:22-30) Thomas Aquinas
The opposition to Jesus reaches the point where they say he is
possessed of an evil spirit. It is
painful to read. Yet we remember that
twisting of the truth pursued Jesus throughout his ministry. And we know that even today many an innocent person
has been hounded and killed on the suspicion of being ‘a witch.’ You hear dreadful stories of ‘witchdoctors’
going around ‘smelling’ witches and it is often a poor old woman who has no
defence and people are afraid to help he for fear they too will be implicated. And so the spiral of fear increases. It was to break this spiral ‘once and for all’
(first reading today from Hebrews 9) that Jesus came and shared our life, our
fear and our weakness and led us through them to faith and courage.
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