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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel finds Jesus encountering a man with an unclean spirit in
the synagogue at Capernaum. </b></span>Isn’t it interesting that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the first unclean
spirit that </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus confronts is in the holy place, the place of worship</b></span>?
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>And what marks this man? Though he is a single person, an individual,
he speaks in the plural: </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>"What do you have to do with
us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?" </b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">The diabolic is, literally, a scattering power: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">diabalein</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Sin separates</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>us</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>from</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>one another</b></span>—</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">Sunde</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">,
related to sundering—but <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>it also divides</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>us</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>interiorly,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>setting</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> one
part of the self</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>against</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>another.</b></span> We’ve all experienced this: <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>our minds </b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>are divided,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>our wills</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> are split,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>and our emotions </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>militate against</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>our
deepest convictions.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
authoritative voice of Jesus brings the man back to himself.</b></span> And
friends, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>this is precisely
the effect that Jesus’ voice has had up and down the ages. </b><b>When you
allow his word to reach deep down within you, you get knitted back
together. </b><b>When Jesus becomes the clear center of your life, then <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">your
mind, your will, your emotions, your private life, your public life—all
of it</span>—finds its harmonious place around that center.</b></span></span></b></b></div>
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