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Monday, April 23, 2018

Reflection for Wednesday April 25; Feast of Saint Mark, evangelist: Mark 16:15-20

Gospel: Mark 16:15-20
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.” Then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.
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Reflection:
Do you take time to share in whatever way possible what you know about Jesus?

It’s so easy to remain in our comfort zones and just live the lifestyle that we want. We do everything for ourselves and we do nothing to propagate the teachings of Jesus.  Then when we are at the sunset of our lives we will find out that nothing really matters except God.  

As we look back we would find out that we’ve been so selfish with our time, energy and treasures. It’s always been me and for myself undertaking no undertaking for God and His people.  As followers of Jesus this is not what He wants us to do.

God wants us to spread the good news in our own little way. He wants us to proclaim our faith not necessarily by words alone but through our actions as well.  If we can proclaim our faith thru our actions that would be much better since actions speaks volumes than words.

We therefore have to discard the me and myself mentality and replace it with God, my fellowmen and me. What does this mean? God and His people must be first in our lives not us. Therefore if God and our fellowmen are first we would have time to share the teachings of Jesus through our words and actions. - Marino J. Dasmarinas     

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