“An Ever Wider We”
John and his fellow disciples “tried to prevent” a person who was “driving out demons in [Jesus’] name” because the person “does not follow us.” In other words, this person is an outsider.
Curiously, twenty verses early in this same Chapter 9, the disciples could not drive out one mute spirit.
Do we allow jealousy prevent us and others from doing good, even when the good is done in Jesus’ name?
This
year, this Gospel happens to be the Gospel on the annual World Day of Migrants
and Refugees. In his message for this
day, Pope Francis invites all believers and people of good will to work “towards
an ever wider we” for all people. He
invites us to pray, “Bless each act of welcome and outreach that draws those in
exile into the “we” of community and of the Church,
so that our earth may truly become what you yourself created it to be: the
common home of all our brothers and sisters. Amen.”
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