The Gospel account of the man possessed by a host of demons in the country of the Gadarenes gives us great hope and assurance in the unsurpassed healing power of our Savior, preaches Fr Bogdan Bucur. However, there is another, more hidden message for us to glean from this reading: the so-called “normal” people living in the community near the demoniac were also afflicted by the evil spirits, just in a less obvious way. This is clear from their response to Our Lord’s healing of the possessed man; rather than give thanks and praise, they were afraid of losing their wealth and way of life and asked the Savior to leave. Fr Bogdan calls us each to examine ourselves for our own attachments to sins and unwillingness to trust the Lord.