Sometimes we don't need
another chance to express how we feel or to ask someone to understand our
situation. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling
expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing
about, then lets see something to prove it. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer: (1906 – 1945:
was a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, who was executed by
hanging)
Gospel
Text: (MK 6:7-13)
Jesus
summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two
and gave
them authority over unclean spirits.
He
instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick
–no food,
no sack, no money in their belts.
They
were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.
He said to
them,
“Wherever
you enter a house, stay there until you leave from there.
Whatever
place does not welcome you or listen to you,
leave
there and shake the dust off your feet
in
testimony against them.”
So they
went off and preached repentance.
The
Twelve drove out many demons,
and they
anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Jesus’ Message is clear today as it was
centuries ago: believe in Him and follow his example of all-inclusive,
selfless, sacrificial love; live as if today were the ultimate day of life on
earth and the gateway to the fulfillment of Life which is Heaven. Food
for thought: What needs to be set aside?
With Lent on the immediate horizon, some things
to consider: simplify and take time for yourselves: some peace & quiet
in prayer, time for a personal retreat, time to get back in touch with family
and friends, time to experience the mercy of God in this special Jubilee Year.
Let’s preach the Good News of Jesus — mercy,
repentance, healing, love — by our lives, using words if necessary.
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