Season after Pentecost | 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a; Psalm 42 and 43; (Isaiah 65:1-9; Psalm 22:19-28;) Galatians 3:23-29; Luke 8:26-39
Medicine for madness
I relate to physical sickness more easily than mental illness. So does our culture.
Transformation often has a price. There is a cost to freedom, even freedom from demons.
Many people are bound. Some don’t even know it. The difference between being free and being bound is at the center of our Gospel text this week.
People assume that silence and peace can be simply harnessed together, silence as Xanax for the soul. But that's not how deserts work.
Sacramentality is the breath of Christian life—life that springs from the sacraments and life that yearns to return to them.