Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Cleansing Spirits

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 01.10.23 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Mark 1:21-28

Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus drives out an unclean spirit from a man in the Capernaum synagogue.
And he wants to perform the same cleansing operation in our lives.

What God intended from the beginning is that our hearts be temples of his presence.
So Christ comes into our world. What does he find?
He finds that the temple of our heart is filled up with all sorts of things that are not the divine power.
Money, worldly success, the esteem of others, sex—whatever it is,
it has now taken the place that rightfully belongs to God.
Therefore, when Christ comes into your life,
he will always have a cleansing role to play.

Fulton J. Sheen once talked about the “expulsive power” of Christ.
When you place him in the center of your soul,
he will expel all those things that don’t belong in that center
and make them find their proper place.

And so Jesus the nonviolent warrior, Jesus the judge, God’s own mind,
now comes into our hearts when we invite him through conversion.
He will have this cleansing authority and cleansing power.

[MurphsLaw]

FIRST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Mk 1:21-28

+++ Jesus came to Capernaum with his
followers,
and on the sabbath he entered
the synagogue and taught.
The people were astonished at
his teaching,
for he taught them as one having
authority and not as the scribes.
In their synagogue was a man
with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, “What have you to do with us,
Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are–
the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said,
“Quiet! Come out of him!”
The unclean spirit convulsed him
and with a loud cry came out of him.
All were amazed and asked one another,
“What is this?
A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean
spirits and they obey him.”
His fame spread everywhere
throughout the whole region of Galilee.+++

[ebb tide]

Where did you get the goofy title, Murph?

That wasn’t in Boobie’s email. Do you just make up your own cute titles in pimping his website?

What exactly are your little “cleansing spirits”?

[ebb tide]

Cleansing Spirit??

[MurphsLaw]

Goofy? Are you suggesting the Gospel CANNOT be Fun ?

Besides..."cleansing spirits" IS NOT THE NOUN HERE !
Cleansing (as an action of Cleaning) "Spirits"-
A VERB and a NOUN

You just aren't looking at the post properly....
Christ was cleansing the man with the evil spirits in Capernaum-
That was the reading...

In their synagogue was a man
with an unclean spirit;
he cried out, “What have you to do with us,
Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are–
the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said,
“Quiet! Come out of him!”
The unclean spirit convulsed him
and with a loud cry came out of him.

which was followed with this:

And so Jesus the nonviolent warrior,
Jesus the judge, God’s own mind,
now comes into our hearts when we invite him through conversion.
He will have this cleansing authority and cleansing power.

Sometimes I think you get me...
than other times...