Sometimes from our parents, sometimes from other people, we happen to hear something close in meaning to: "You are living wrongly, and if things keep going this way, it will go badly for you." And we answer: "Why are you jinxing me?"...
Sometimes from our parents, sometimes from other people, we happen to hear something close in meaning to: "You are living wrongly, and if things keep going this way, it will go badly for you." And we answer: "Why are you jinxing me?" We are so unwilling to see the cause of troubles, or even disasters, in ourselves that we are ready to find that cause in the fact that someone has rebuked us.
So it is here with Simon the Magician. Exposed by the apostles for his pagan approach to Christian life and called by them to personal repentance, that is, to inner change and turning to God, he asks them to pray for him, supposing that in this way their "curse" will be removed. As though it were not Simon's inner paganism, but the words of the apostles, that were leading him toward a future spiritual catastrophe.
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