Gospel: Mark
16:15-18
Jesus
appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim
the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever
does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who
believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They
will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it
will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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Reflection:
Have you
already shared Jesus and the gospel to anyone? Jesus tells the apostles and us
too: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”
Perhaps more
than half of us would be saying that we’ve not yet shared the word of God and
what is the reason? Perhaps lack of time is not the reason because if we can
give time to our other worldly activities why can’t we have time to share the
words of Jesus?
To share
our faith and Jesus is the duty of every baptized Christian no one is exempt
from this responsibility. But how can we share if we don’t regularly read the
bible? If we seldom go to Holy Mass? So we read first and we give time to be
present at Holy Mass and then we share the blessings and knowledge that we’ve
imbibed.
Saint
Jerome has said: “Ignorance of the bible is ignorance of Christ.” This is very
true, for us to effectively share Jesus we must know Him first. How can we
share what we don’t have or know? But if we seldom read the words of God in the
bible and if we seldom go to Holy Mass. There’s no way for us to share our
faith for the simple reason that we cannot give what we don’t have.
Let us
not be stagnant followers of Jesus, let us not be satisfied with this status
quo. Let us read God’s words in the bible afterwards let us live it and then
let us have the courage to share it in whatever means possible.
Share
your faith within your family first, to your spouse, children and to the other
members of your household. And see for yourself the miracle that Jesus will
create in your life and in your family the moment you share Him.
When you
share Jesus you assure yourself of a sacred space in heaven when your life in
this temporal world is over and done with already. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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