<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Art, THANKYOU so much for your reflection today. We tuned into ( on line) the Mass from the Dominican Priory at Oxford. There was an excellent homily by Father Lawrence Lew OP on today’s Gospel.Should you want to hear it put the following into Google.<div>blackfriars oxford mass today</div><div>We think you will find it interesting. </div><div>We certainly found it enlightening. With our very best wishes and thanks, </div><div>Sheila and Rob </div><div>(England!) <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 28 Jan 2024, at 07:40, Arthur Blomme via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Hi y' all <br>
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<p>This is my reflection on Jan 27 Sunday gospel. <br>
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<p>Art<br>
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<h3>He commands even the demons and they obey him.</h3>
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Jesus begins his journey to Jerusalem by casting <span style="border:none">out the<span style="border:none">
unclean spirit in the temple at Capernaum. This event has
little meaning in <span style="border:none">our society
today. Ours is a technocratic worldview <span style="border:none">characterized </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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view <span style="border:none">that makes<span style="border:none"> the material so much more important
than mind and spirit. For the most part our society
considers the Demonic to be a fiction<span style="border:none">al superstition. This kind of
thinking obscures the horrendous reality of evil in
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">,</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;
border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> the<span style="border:none"> casting out
of demons was a much more meaningful part of Marks Gospel
story than perhaps we experience today.<span style="border:none"> For the early readers of Mark's
Gospel demonic evil was a very real consideration.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">In this Sunday's gospel reading, it is
apparent that the demon is separate from the humanity of the
individual possessed by the unclean spirit. The unclean
spirit was a <span style="border:none">no<span style="border:none">nhuman<span style="border:none">
being. For the early Christian, humanity was created in
the image and likeness of a loving God. To be human is
to have compassion, to know good from evil and have a
conscience. We speak of barbarous events as inhumane,
non human. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">Our thinking of psychopathy is<span style="border:none"> similar to the thinking of demons in
Mark's gospel. Psychopaths have no conscience or
compassion. We sometime</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">s</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> speak of psychopaths as inhumane. Like
the demonic, psychopathy thrives in the shadows. When we
shine the light of truth on psychopathy the po<span style="border:none">wer of the psychopath is diminished. </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">Early Christianity saw the demonic in the
social institutions. St. Mark's version of the crucifixion
tells the story of how all the major political institutions of
his day: the high priest, the Herodians<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">(Roman <span style="border:none">proxys), the<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">scribes,
the pharisees and the zealots<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">(Judas
Iscariot) conspired to crucify Jesus. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">Institutions are not human and they have a
life of their own. When acting on behalf of these institutions
it is easy to go with the flow <span style="border:none">and
set<span style="border:none"> aside one's compassion and <span style="border:none">humanity to serve the ends of the
institution. This is how we can become <span style="border:none">possessed<span style="border:none">
by the institution and participate in its
psycopathy. When good people do nothing the
psychopathy of the institution prevails.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">The psychopathy of war is so well hidden
by the <span style="border:none">false stories<span style="border:none"> we are being told by a mainstream
media. W<span style="border:none">e often fail to
recognize the atrocious evil of war. There is the adage:
“The first victim of war is the truth”. Now we are in
perpetual</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;
border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">war and the stories justifying atrocities
are so thin. The stories being told about war cannot fool all
of humanity. The </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:
EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">d<span style="border:none">o<span style="border:none">m<span style="border:none">i<span style="border:none">n<span style="border:none">a<span style="border:none">n<span style="border:none">t<span style="border:none">
<span style="border:none">narrative<span style="border:none"> can no longer </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">contain the truth of these demonic acts.</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">Attesting to this point is the demonic
genocide and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Last week South
Africa invoked the </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">W<span style="border:none">orld <span style="border:none">C</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">ourt </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">o<span style="border:none">f<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">J<span style="border:none">u<span style="border:none">s<span style="border:none">t<span style="border:none">i<span style="border:none">c<span style="border:none">e<span style="border:none"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">to indict Israel for genocide in Gaza. In
the opening statement </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;
border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">S</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;
border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">outh<span style="border:none"> Africa
sites Netanyahu's use of ancient Jewish scripture to assert
his intention to slaughter every man woman and child of Moab<span style="border:none"> (Palestine<span style="border:none">).
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">Despite the overwhelming evidence that
this slaughter of men</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:
EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">,</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none"> women and children is taking place our
Canadian gover<span style="border:none">nment joins with other
Western leaders to claim that there is no genocide in Gaza.
Clearly our western leaders are possessed by an unclean
spirit. They have no compassion for our Palestinian brothers
and sisters. They have lost all sense of their humanity.<br>
<br>
<span style="border:none">The genocide of the Palestinian
people is only the obvious, the tip of the iceburg. If we
<span style="border:none">push back further the veils of
deception</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">,</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> we can uncover so many more demonic
atrocities perpetrated by our demon possessed national and
world leaders. It is ou<span style="border:none">r fear that
keeps these demons in the shadows.<br>
<br>
<span style="border:none">The good news is that we have no
need to fear the power of </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;
border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">d<span style="border:none">e<span style="border:none">m<span style="border:none">o<span style="border:none">n<span style="border:none">s<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">o<span style="border:none">r<span style="border:none">
<span style="border:none">p<span style="border:none">s<span style="border:none">y<span style="border:none">c<span style="border:none">h<span style="border:none">o<span style="border:none">p<span style="border:none">a<span style="border:none">t<span style="border:none">h<span style="border:none">s</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">. When the unclean spirit </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">encounters </span></span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">the<span style="border:none"> Light of the
Universal Christ</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">:</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> </span></span><span style="border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">... the unclean
spirit convulsed and with a loud cry came <span style="border:none">out of him. All were amazed and asked
one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority.
He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”(Mk.
1:26-27)</span></span></span><span style="border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-fareast-language:JA"></span></p>
<div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #4472C4 1.0pt;
mso-border-bottom-themecolor:accent1;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid #4472C4 .5pt;
mso-border-bottom-themecolor:accent1;padding:31.0pt 31.0pt 4.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes;margin-left:46.8pt;margin-right:46.8pt"> </div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
background:white;border:none;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">This is our faith. Christ is <span style="border:none">resurrected</span></span></span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none"> and victorious over </span></span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"><span style="border:none">death and the demonic psychopathy of war</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">a<span style="border:none">n<span style="border:none">d<span style="border:none"> <span style="border:none">a<span style="border:none">v<span style="border:none">a<span style="border:none">r<span style="border:none">i<span style="border:none">c<span style="border:none">e</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:
JA"><span style="border:none">.</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#1D2228;border:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-fareast-language:JA"></span></p>
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