Driving out the demon of pornography

Once, Christ went to a synagogue and started to teach the people who were impressed by the way he did it, since, according to them, “he was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes.” (Mk 1,21)

- Fr. Roy Cimagala

Then came a man with an unclean spirit who cried out: “What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us?” (Mk 1,22) That was when Christ immediately told the unclean spirit to go out of the man, and it did.

This gospel episode somehow reminds us that when we are practically possessed by some evil spirits who would put us under their bondage, all we have to do is to approach Christ through the many means the Church now offers us. And for sure, that possession would be solved.

While we would ardently hope that the relief be immediate, we know that God in his own mysterious ways would also want us to do our part, and this may take a lot of time and effort. But we are assured that all our needs are taken care of. God's providence never fails.