Reflection for Tuesday January 25, The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (Feast): Mark 16:15-18

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 the Lord?  

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? It’s by reading the words of the God and by making ourselves available at Holy Mass that we can become effective sharers of our faith.  

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 the faith 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 if we don’t know something about it and if we don’t make ourselves present at Holy Mass 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, 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 would 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