This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Hello, welcome to the Rosary.

Let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let us call to mind all the people we said

we would pray for. The topic of our rosary is Jesus drives out demons.

Americans are afraid, afraid of the future,

which seems bewildering and off the rails.

Fear is a legitimate expression of the God-given passions when evil is present.

The sacred scriptures offer signs of the presence of evil in a society.

Marker counts for us the time when the disciples came to the other side of the

sea, the country of the garacines. And when he had come out of the boat, there met him

out of the tombs a man who wore no clothes with an

unclean spirit who lived among the tombs and no one could bind him anymore even with a chain for he had often

been around with fetters and chains but the chains he wrenched apart and the fetters he broke in pieces and no one had the strength to

subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.

This passage offers several signs of the influence of the devil in a person or in a culture.

First, we see a rejection of civilization and authority,

as the demoniac lives alone and isolated.

Second, a fascination and identification with death and morbidity.

Third, fixation on nudity and rejection of moral norms.

Fourth, extreme strength that goes beyond our ability to bind or subdue.

Fifth, irrationality and brute-like strength behavior, symbolized by the howling.

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