In today’s gospel Jesus is demonstrating to his newly formed group of followers that the gospel they are to proclaim is grounded in the ordinary struggles of ordinary people. This gospel carries the power to lift the burdens and restore the troubled to wholeness and health. We may wish to identify the “unclean spirits” that take hold of us from time to time so that we can open ourselves to the power of God mediated through God’s teacher-healers in our time.
Adults: What are the evils in today’s world that you pray God will
free us from?
Children: Name some bad things that you want to pray that Jesus will
take away from our world.
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