July 1 Dedication of the Church of Jumièges, Normandy, France (1067) Gospel: Matthew 8:28-34 Image created using Google AI Image Creator. Today’s Gospel is about a town that got exactly what it should have wanted and ran from it anyway. Jesus drives the demons out of two men chained among the tombs and sets them completely free, and the town’s response isn’t joy, it’s fear. They beg Jesus to leave. The lesson is in plain sight: Real freedom, when it arrives in your life, can feel more threatening than the bondage it replaced. We do the same thing in smaller ways constantly. We pray for change and then flinch when it actually starts moving. We say we want peace, but peace would mean putting down a grudge we have gotten comfortable carrying. We say we want freedom from a habit, but freedom would mean facing who we are without it. Jesus doesn’t ask permission to disturb what needs disturbing; He just walks toward it, the same way He walked straight into that graveyard. So, her...