Today's Gospel involves the healing of a boy possessed by a mute spirit. It comes right after the Transfiguration and when Jesus comes down from the mountain, he finds the disciples he had left behind trying to drive out the spirit but failing to do so. Jesus reacts by lamenting "this faithless generation" then after talking a bit more to the father, he proceeds to drive out the spirit.
In private, the disciples ask, "Why could we not drive out the spirit?" Jesus replies. "This kind can only come out through prayer.”
Sometimes I feel that it is not only possession that can be handled through prayer. Sometimes we feel powerless before situations around us which can easily lead us into despair. Sometimes we feel powerless even before our own abilities to reform ourselves.
Today's Gospel is a nice reminder that all things are possible with God and those things which make us feel powerless are best handled with prayer.
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