Gospel: Mark 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.
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Reflection:
What is the advantage of not being attached
to worldly things? We learn to trust on the providence of God and we learn that
the things of this world do not matter for its temporary and fleeting. We learn
that our faith in God is more than enough to compensate for our lack of worldly
things.
Come to think of it, how much money do we
need to earn in our lifetime that there are people who work their butts out to
earn money? Money that if we are not discerning could even contribute to our
being sick! And then at the end this same money that we’ve earned so hard may
not even be enough to pay for our hospital bills!
In the gospel, when Jesus told His
disciples not to bring, food, money and the like. He was essentially telling
them not to worry for He would provide for them. If God can provide for the
birds and other animals will He not provide for us whom He created in His image
(Genesis 1:27)?
Many of us are so concerned with the
material and physical aspect of life such as the clothes that we wear. The high-tech
gadgets that we have but in close retrospection we actually can live even
without these material things.
Our problem is we allow this world to
dictate upon us. This is the reason why many of us punish ourselves to work so
hard to earn money. For what? So that we could show off how wealthy we’ve
become?
Jesus invites us to re-think our style of
living for we may have already become slaves of this world. Rather than become
His faithful and trusting followers. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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