Gospel:
Matthew 10:16-23
(Jesus
said to the twelve Apostles) “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst
of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for
they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you
will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and
the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or
what you are to say.
You will
be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak
but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will hand over
brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against
parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by all because of my
name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in
one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of
Israel before the Son of Man comes.”
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Reflection:
How far
would you go for your love of Jesus? Are you willing to give your life so that
HIS teachings will continue to live and spread in the hearts of your fellowmen?
Jesus
needs us today more than any other time because today we see the world being
slowly enveloped by the culture of secularization. What are we going to do
about this tilting paradigm shift toward secularization? Are we just going to
stand idly, do nothing and be indifferent to the mission of Jesus?
If we do
nothing because we are afraid to embrace sacrifice and persecution, what will
happen to this world? This world will eventually be ruled and populated by
people who are not anymore afraid of God.
Just look
and observe, abortion is prevalent even legal in many countries same as with
divorce. Why are these incidents happening now? Because many are afraid to give
their life in the service of Jesus many of us now have the mindset of apathy (I
am only concerned with my family and my own welfare).
Our
indifference towards the mission of Jesus contributes to the degeneration of
the value formation of this world. Many of us are even already afraid to take
up the cudgels for Jesus, we only confine Jesus inside the walls of the church.
We must
wake-up and do our part (No matter how small) to continue to spread the values
and teachings of Jesus in this world. We do this not for our own sake anymore
we do this for the sake of the future generation which now belongs to our
children.
Just imagine them growing-up with a scant idea of who Jesus is, what
will happen to them when they grow-up and have their own family? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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