Gospel
text (Mathew 8,28-34): When
Jesus reached Gadara on the other side, He was met by two demoniacs who came
out from the tombs. They were so fierce that no one dared to pass that way.
Suddenly they shouted, «What do you want with us, you, Son of God? Have you
come to torture us before the time?». At some distance away there was a large
herd of pigs feeding. So the demons begged him, «If you drive us out, send us
into that herd of pigs». Jesus ordered them, «Go». So they left and went into
the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned. The
men in charge of them ran off to the town, where they told the whole story,
also what had happened to the men possessed with the demons. Then the whole
town went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave
their area.
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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