Gospel: Luke 13:31-35
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the
prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your
children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were
unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not
see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord.
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Reflection:
What if Jesus allowed fear to grow in His heart? There would be no salvation for all of humanity, but Jesus faced His fears and accomplished His mission by dying on the cross.
What can we learn from this courageous act of Jesus? We also must learn to face our fears, many of us are not able to evangelize because of fear. Fear that no one will listen to us, fear that we might be rebuked and we have many more unfounded fears. We fear for the simple reason that we allow it to live in our hearts. But once we do not give haven for fear, we now become successful missioners for Christ Jesus.
The key to become successful missioners for Christ is to defeat fear with faith. But human as we are we often succumb to fear most especially if we are in the line of fire. If we have this mindset what will happen now to the propagation of the faith that was started by Jesus?
If Jesus, the apostles and the saints allowed fear to conquer them we have no Christian faith to hold and speak of right now. We would be pagans and faithless wanderers in this world, but we have our faith and we owe this to the courage of Christ Jesus and His followers.
Let us therefore emulate Christ, let us not fear the obstacles before us. For obstacles are meant to be conquered by the strength of our faith in Jesus. Face your fears and creatively live your Baptismal mission to evangelize.
Be courageous and never worry for the simple reason that as you do your mission for the faith Jesus will always be with you. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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