Readings: Sir 1, -10 / Ps 92 / Mk 9.14 to 29
ONLY PRAYER
The episode of the young 'epileptic' reveals dramatic and unexpected depth of our faith relationship with the Lord. It shows us what is the evil that keeps our hearts segregated from "childhood" (Mk 9:21), what constitutes our "unbelief" (9:24) and how not - after all - do not know what will become possible when you are immersed in prayer, "(9:29) and love of the Father.
unclean spirit that upsets the lives of young is defined by his father "dumb" (9:17). This description reveals the widespread underestimation of the evil that inhabits every "unbelieving generation" (9:19). Often we think that the basic problem of life can be identified with a certain inability to speak, to be fully known and happily accepted. Jesus, however, completes the picture by defining the spirit of "dumb and deaf" (9.25). It is not an addition of little importance, but a real focus of evil profound deafness that prevents radical that listening to the fundamental questions that life poses to all: "The sand of the sea, the drops of rain and days of time those who can count? The height the sky, the expanse of the earth and the depths of those who can explore? "(Si 1.2 to 3). Often the silence that lives in us and around us - that is also expressed in the attitude about the trivial and superficial - is not simply the result of a desolate little habit of listening, which is the vital breath to our hearts.
anguished movements which the young person is forced vividly express man's situation without the wisdom that God does not look a thing to be grasped, but " has seen and he measured, he poured out upon all his works, every mortal has generously given, has bestowed on those who love him "(1:9-10). The young man is dragged hither and thither, and life drooling from the mouth, grinds his teeth instead of praise and becomes hard and dry, harmony and movement. We are ahead of the man who is far from the only "source" of life: the "word of God in heaven", which allows you to walk in the "ways" of the "eternal commandments" (1.5). This evil is common to all "generation", the relationship between father and son, the transmission of life and his wisdom. But this is also the fundamental problem force that authenticates the confrontation with God and free the power of prayer: "I believe, help my unbelief" (Mk 9:24). There are tensions, shadows and anxieties in our everyday life that can not be removed "if not by prayer" (9:29). Just listening to the Father's love and discover that we can not 'died' nothing that really matters, because our poor reality is constantly upheld by the patience of God is the only way life will again become a 'acceptable equation. Not because it all adds up, but because "everything is possible for those who believe" (9:23). Also persist, with humble joy. Pending that the day will pop up again.
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