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Martedì 30 Gennaio 2024

Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Mark 5:21-43

To heal

Heal from what? From fear. Fear is always infused in man's mind by Satan. God never instills fear. God can elicit sacred fright and wonder, but never fear. Satan uses fear to dominate and subjugate man in all his dimensions. Fear is an inner psychological mechanism that weakens man, pushing him to be chained to the past and dissolving visions of the future. Fear is infused by Satan as a chance to face life and events and when man accepts and lives it, it becomes Satan's favorite food, his nourishment. Demons consume man's fear and the more they eat, the more powerful they become. Fear weakens man until it makes him ill in times and ways that depend on the experience and the mental and physical structure of each person.
Fear has only one powerful antidote: faith. Faith saves from fear. Faith is not professing a belief in some religion, it is not fideism, but having a non-deformable certainty that God is always with us, loves us, that everything is always in His hands, and He can do anything, always. The first steps of faith are not made as we harbour doubt in God's existence, but as we cling to the subtle suspicion since we experience unpleasant events in our life that God does not love us and is not with us. The first steps of non-faith are negative thoughts about God, thinking God is responsible for our adverse fate, for the pain we feel, for the cross we must bear, for the loneliness we are experiencing. Those kind of thoughts cancel faith, cancel God from man's life, even if man is faithful to traditions, rituals, moral principles, doctrines and religious institutions. True faith saves from fear and that is why that faith is so powerful, it can even cure from disease and pain. True faith is the favorite food of man's soul and mind, it is the food that makes a man strong against every enemy and difficulty. That is why Jesus invites those who were present at the miracle of the resurrestion to immediately give food to the little girl, intending certainly to give her nourishment to retore strength and energy, but also intending to inspire the child's parents to help her to feed her mind and heart with true faith, so that fear no longer had any place in her mind and heart, weakening and killing her.