Jesus summoned his Twelve
disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to
cure every disease and every illness. The names of the Twelve Apostles are
these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of
Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the
tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon the Cananean,
and Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus.
Jesus sent out these
Twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a
Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go,
make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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Reflection:
Where does The Kingdom of
Heaven lies? It lies within us and it has been with us since we’ve been
baptized. But we may say, if the kingdom of heaven is within us, why is it that
our life is still problematic? This is for the reason that we refuse to live our
life according to God’s will for us. Thus, we live our life according to our
own will and not according to God’s will.
So what happens when we
live our life according to our own terms? We open our life to many problems,
problems that we could actually avoid if we only live our life according to the
will of God. However, many of us do not have an awareness of the will of God
because we overpower it with our own selfish will for ourselves.
It’s not difficult to
know God’s will for us, by going to Holy Mass we will begin to discern God’s
will for our life. By reading our bible we will discern the will of God for us.
By our frequent interactions with Jesus through our prayers we will discern the
will of God.
Many of us are lost in this
world because we are not always in touch with Jesus. Yet we are always in touch
with materialism, hedonism and other worldly things. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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