To Be Freed from Torment
Preparing for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: One Day before Sunday (Year B)
Scripture
Semi-continuous: Psalm 130; 1 Samuel 20:27-42; Luke 4:31-37
Complementary: Psalm 30; Lamentations 2:18-22; Luke 4:31-37
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Prayer
Redeeming Sustainer, visit your people and pour out your strength and courage upon us, that we may hurry to make you welcome not only in our concern for others, but by serving them generously and faithfully in your name. Amen. (Revised Common Lectionary)
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Reflection
He went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. They were astounded at his teaching because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Leave us alone! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” Then the demon, throwing the man down before them, came out of him without doing him any harm. They were all astounded and kept saying to one another, “What kind of word is this, that with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits and they come out?” And news about him began to reach every place in the region (Luke 4:31-37).
To be freed from torment is to step into a realm of profound liberation, where the chains that once bound the soul are broken, and the mind and spirit can soar unencumbered. Imagine the transition from a state of perpetual anguish, where every moment is overshadowed by pain and fear to a place of peace and tranquility.
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