Today’s Gospel is taken from early in Luke’s account. The Synoptic Gospels all share presentation and portrayal of Jesus as then leading God’s fight against the spirits of death and darkness and offering life and love with which the dark and evil spirits are vanquished. This is not just a weird and eccentric account of a world afflicted by evil spirits which our more sophisticated and science based explanations of human behavior can dispense with. Evil spirits are at work in and among us bringing death. Just look at the record of human destructiveness in our times. It’s that deathless that Jesus wishes heal and renew if we will let him.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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