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 (Mark 16:15).”
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? 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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