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The Healing, near Gadara, of the Man Possessed (Saint Gregory Palamas)

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Today’s Gospel tells us that, when Jesus reached land, He met a man from the city who had long had demons within him. The man had no clothes on and didn’t live in a house, but among the tombs. It says that ‘He reached the land’ to show that He’d arrived by ship, since the storm had subsided and the sea had become calm, at His rebuke. When He’d left Galilee by ship with His disciples, as the Evangelist tells us earlier, He’d indicated He wanted to go to the opposite shore. It’s clear from this that He’d foreseen what would happen and had gone as unbidden help to the man who’d been tormented so harshly and for so many ...

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