Mc 9, 14-29
En aquel tiempo, cuando Jesús bajó del monte y llegó al sitio donde estaban sus discípulos, vio que mucha gente los rodeaba y que algunos escribas discutían con ellos. Cuando la gente vio a Jesús, se impresionó mucho y corrió a saludarlo.
Él les preguntó: “¿De qué están discutiendo?” De entre la gente, uno le contestó: “Maestro, te he traído a mi hijo, que tiene un espíritu que no lo deja hablar; cada vez que se apodera de él, lo tira al suelo y el muchacho echa espumarajos, rechina los dientes y se queda tieso. Les he pedido a tus discípulos que lo expulsen, pero no han podido”.
Jesús les contestó: “¡Gente incrédula! ¿Hasta cuándo tendré que estar con ustedes? ¿Hasta cuándo tendré que soportarlos? Tráiganme al muchacho”. Y se lo trajeron. En cuanto el espíritu vio a Jesús, se puso a retorcer al muchacho; lo derribó por tierra y lo revolcó, haciéndolo echar espumarajos. Jesús le preguntó al padre: “¿Cuánto tiempo hace que le pasa esto?” Contestó el padre: “Desde pequeño. Y muchas veces lo ha arrojado al fuego y al agua para acabar con él. Por eso, si algo puedes, ten compasión de nosotros y ayúdanos”.
Jesús le replicó: “¿Qué quiere decir eso de ‘si puedes’? Todo es posible para el que tiene fe”. Entonces el padre del muchacho exclamó entre lágrimas: “Creo, Señor; pero dame tú la fe que me falta”. Jesús, al ver que la gente acudía corriendo, reprendió al espíritu inmundo, diciéndole: “Espíritu mudo y sordo, yo te lo mando: Sal de él y no vuelvas a entrar en él”. Entre gritos y convulsiones violentas salió el espíritu. El muchacho se quedó como muerto, de modo que la mayoría decía que estaba muerto. Pero Jesús lo tomó de la mano, lo levantó y el muchacho se puso de pie.
Al entrar en una casa con sus discípulos, éstos le preguntaron a Jesús en privado: “¿Por qué nosotros no pudimos expulsarlo?” Él les respondió: “Esta clase de demonios no sale sino a fuerza de oración y de ayuno”.
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GospelMK 9:14-29
As Jesus came down from the mountain with Peter, James, John
and approached the other disciples,
they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.
Immediately on seeing him,
the whole crowd was utterly amazed.
They ran up to him and greeted him.
He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”
Someone from the crowd answered him,
“Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.
Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down;
he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid.
I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.”
He said to them in reply,
“O faithless generation, how long will I be with you?
How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.”
They brought the boy to him.
And when he saw him,
the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions.
As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around
and foam at the mouth.
Then he questioned his father,
“How long has this been happening to him?”
He replied, “Since childhood.
It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him.
But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Jesus said to him,
“‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering,
rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,
“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you:
come out of him and never enter him again!”
Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out.
He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!”
But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private,
“Why could we not drive the spirit out?”
He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”
and approached the other disciples,
they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.
Immediately on seeing him,
the whole crowd was utterly amazed.
They ran up to him and greeted him.
He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”
Someone from the crowd answered him,
“Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.
Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down;
he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid.
I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.”
He said to them in reply,
“O faithless generation, how long will I be with you?
How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.”
They brought the boy to him.
And when he saw him,
the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions.
As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around
and foam at the mouth.
Then he questioned his father,
“How long has this been happening to him?”
He replied, “Since childhood.
It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him.
But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Jesus said to him,
“‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering,
rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it,
“Mute and deaf spirit, I command you:
come out of him and never enter him again!”
Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out.
He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!”
But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private,
“Why could we not drive the spirit out?”
He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”
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Meditacion:
Comenzamos esta semana en el tiempo ordinario y la terminaremos metidos en la cuaresma tras pasar esa puerta peculiar y fronteriza del Miércoles de Ceniza. Entretanto apuramos estos días con otro colorido de la Palabra y la liturgia, aunque dicho sea de paso nos invitan a pensar en las actitudes a cambiar y hasta en los demonios que nos dominan y tenemos que abandonar con la ayuda de Dios.
Qué panorama el que describe hoy el evangelio y qué dolor el de aquel padre que vive en la desesperación de no saber ya cómo atender y procurar el mejor cuidado a su hijo. “Si algo puedes, ten lástima de nosotros y ayúdanos”.
Seguro que en tu entorno como en el mío, hay más de un padre o madre con el dolor de un hijo clavado en la propia carne; por una causa u otra: enfermedad, accidente, abandono escolar, dependencia adquirida, fracaso familiar y afectivo… ¡Hay tantos padres y madres para quienes amanecer supone madrugar al dolor del corazón imposible de curar y cada anochecer es un resguardarse en el llanto de la desesperanza…!
La queja, el lamento, el grito…. dirigidos a Dios parecen más que justificados desde el amor. Un amor que reclama la mirada paterna-materna de Dios. Desde la fe aceptamos que Dios se hace solidario en nuestros dolores hasta la cruz, pero hay ocasiones en que la duda pugna con el dolor interior hasta el borde mismo de la desesperanza.
Como discípulos nos surgen muchas preguntas, con frecuencia nos desbordamos en explicaciones y hasta nos atrevemos a ejercer de chamanes de cuidados paliativos, pero el mal y el dolor del corazón de aquellos padres-madres o el del hijo/a que atiende a alguno de sus mayores en situación terminal irreversible, ahí sigue. Seguramente deberíamos arrimar nuestro corazón al suyo y aunar el lamento: “Si algo puedes, ten lástima de nosotros y ayúdanos” y puestos a remediar desde la fe sería necesario salir de la farmacopea de nuestra palabrería y darnos al “ayuno y la oración” que nos permitan iluminar el dolor de la cruz en la esperanza del amor del Dios y Padre de la Vida.
“Jesús, Señor nuestro, concédeme un espíritu de intercesión y el deseo de ver que se manifieste tu Reino en este mundo.” Amen
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We start this week in ordinary time and we will end up in Lent after passing that peculiar and border gate of Ash Wednesday. In the meantime we hurry these days with another color of the Word and the liturgy, although incidentally they invite us to think about the attitudes to change and even the demons that dominate us and we have to leave with the help of God.
What a picture that describes the gospel today and what a pain that of that father who lives in despair of not knowing how to care for the best care for his son. "If anything you can, pity us and help us."
Surely in your environment as in mine, there is more than one father or mother with the pain of a son stuck in the flesh itself; For one reason or another: illness, accident, school drop-out, acquired dependence, family and emotional failure… There are so many fathers and mothers for whom dawn rises getting up to the pain of the heart impossible to cure and every nightfall is a shelter in the crying of the hopelessness ...!
The complaint, the regret, the shout… directed to God seem more than justified from love. A love that demands the paternal-maternal look of God. From faith we accept that God becomes solidary in our pains to the cross, but there are times when doubt struggles with inner pain to the very edge of despair.
As disciples many questions arise, we often overflow in explanations and even dare to practice palliative care shamans, but the evil and the pain of the heart of those fathers or mothers or of the son / daughter who attends to any of their older in irreversible terminal situation, there it continues. Surely we should bring our hearts to his and join the lament: "If you can do anything, pity us and help us" and put to remedy from the faith it would be necessary to leave the pharmacopoeia of our palaver and give us the "fast and prayer" that allow us to illuminate the pain of the cross in the hope of the love of God and Father of Life.
"Jesus, our Lord, grant me a spirit of intercession and the desire to see your Kingdom manifest in this world." Amen
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