TO JOIN HIM IN HIS PATH, JUST AS I AM. Matthew 8:28-34

Today’s Gospel invites us to recognize in our lives and in our world the evil that dwells in us and its effects on our personal lives and relationships with others, with the world, with God. But it also fills us with hope, because Christ’s love is able to free us from sin; only He can destroy the evil that oppresses us and make us new persons.

This, which should make us happy, clashes with the reaction of the people who, in the face of what the swineherds say, reject Jesus. The loss of the pigs, and therefore, of what provides them with economic sustenance, is more important to them than the healing of two people. These are the contradictions that we ourselves so often experience: that we want to be at the service of life and of others and at the same time we want to defend our own interest; two desires that sometimes are in conflict and that invite us to take a position, to define what is important for us, knowing that in this position, at the same time, we welcome or reject the Lord.