Today we find ourselves back in Ordinary Time, but with a gospel that isn’t an ordinary everyday gospel. We are right at the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry in the gospel of Mark, and Jesus has begun his work, but he hasn’t begun it with quietly teaching and preaching. He is telling people that the Kingdom of God needs to be built on this earth, but he is also confronting some opposing powers head on, the forces that don’t want that Kingdom built. And his opposing powers aren’t the scribes, coming around already here to pick at him and question him, he is opposing something bigger: He is confronting demons,…