Students come to this university with all sorts of hopes and dreams and problems: relationship problems, identity problems, problems with their studies, financial problems, self-esteem issues, family problems, all sorts of problems. We all need a Savior to heal us, save us and set us free. And that is why having Catholic campus ministry is so important.
It was no different 2,000 years ago. In today's Gospel Jesus cured many people, including Peter’s mother-in-law, drove out many demons and preached in synagogues throughout Galilee. Elsewhere he healed and set free a possessed man, 10 lepers, a woman with a hemorrhage, a boy with epilepsy and many others.
Jesus was famous as a teacher and healer, and only later did people discover that he was also their Savior, something they realized gradually as they reflected on the meaning of his teaching and miracles. Mark wrote: All were amazed and asked one another, "What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him." And then he added: His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
“Jesus can free us from all these unclean spirits as well, but only insofar as we commit ourselves to doing whatever is necessary to stay free once Jesus has done his part.”