Today,
we are given to live in times when new mental diseases are reaching
unsuspected levels never ever known before. At present, our rhythm of
life is impelling us towards a stressing race to consume and
misrepresent more than our neighbor next door, the whole dragnet
being seasoned with a strong dosage of individualism, that is
customizing persons isolated from the rest of the world. This
loneliness, that many of us are forced to put up with because of
social conveniences, job pressure or enslaving practices, is
responsible for quite a few of us buckling under depression,
neurosis, hysterics, schizophrenia, or some other mental disorders,
that may severely endanger a person's future.
«Jesus
called his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to
drive out all evil spirits and to heal diseases» (Lk
9:1). Diseases we can identify in the same Gospel as mental diseases.
Meeting Christ, a
person completed and realized, carries a state of equilibrium and
peace that soothes our mood and allows us to rediscover ourselves
while providing with light and lucidity our lives and our approach to
future. The Gospels are criteria to clarify any doubts; they are good
to teach and mentor, to educate both young and older, and to lead
persons through the path of life, that path that never has to
shrivel.
«So
they set out and went through the villages, proclaiming the good
news» (Lk 9:6). This is our mission too: to live and
ponder over the Gospel, the very word of Jesus, so that it can be
imbued into us. Thus, by and by, we shall be able to find the path to
follow and the freedom to accomplish. As John Paul II has written,
«peace has to be accomplished through truth (...); it has to be
built in freedom».
Let Jesus Christ —who
called us to faith an eternal joy— overfills us with his hope
and love, He who has given us a new life and an inexhaustible future.
