(for today's reading) http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020116.cfm
Have you ever experienced something in life that just felt like Divine intervention, that God was right there with you? In today's Gospel reading Jesus and his disciples have left the crowded shores of the sea. Jesus had been so exhausted that he'd slept through the storm, and then stilled the storm and waters showing his Divinity over even nature. Now they have just landed in tiny Gerasenes where they meet they meet this man possessed. To read the description of the possessed man it may invoke images of Grendel, that 'monster' in the 2007 production of Beowulf as he claws around the shore seeking for his cave.
It is still a man Jesus and the others meet. It is as if Jesus had them come here for some divine work that he had planned for someone that he has loved since the beginning of time; a man for whom he came to bring salvation from the evils that plagued him. Jesus does this. With this story comes the hope of salvation for each of us as individuals.
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