As we heard, Jesus sent out seventy two disciples — to go out into every town and to tell people the good news about
the Kingdom of God and the promise of God’s love. And the mission that Jesus
gives to those disciples is the same mission that he gives to every one of
us. Jesus is calling all of us to be “laborers for the harvest.” He is telling
us to “go on our way” and wherever we go, he is giving us the mission to share
the good news of God’s love. He is calling us to seek out those who are lost
and cannot find their way, those who are looking for answers and cannot find
them. As I said, we do this in many different ways, wherever we find ourselves.
We labor for the harvest in the love and service that we show in our homes and
in our neighborhoods. In the places where we work. Sometimes, we seem to think
that in order to be a missionary disciple, as Pope Francis likes to say, we
need to have a special vocation or a special call. Our Christian vocation is a
missionary vocation, it’s up to us. We are called to bring the beauty, I
insist, of the kingdom to our society. Nothing is special — you think of the
life of the apostles and they were just totally normal people — the twelve apostles
most of them were fishermen or had some normal way of life, a family, just as we
do. Those seventy two just went out and started talking people about Jesus and they came
back, as we heard in today’s passage of the Gospel, very happy because people
were happy to hear about God’s plan for the world, for peace and joy. So in
every situation of our life — when we are at home, when we are at work, when we
talk to people — we have just with our daily life, in our ordinary way, to show
God’s love and mercy to the people. And it is a mission of joy and we know that
God is our Father, and as we were reflecting today — God loves us and wants us
to rejoice and to share in his love. It’s interesting to me, in today’s passage
of the Gospel, Jesus talks about two practical things that we are supposed to
do as we bring the good news of the Gospel to the people that we deal with in
our ordinary life. He says:
"Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'peace to this
household'" And then he says: "Whatever town you enter and they
welcome you, eat what is set before you cure the sick in it and say to them:
'the Kingdom of God is at hand for you'. We just celebrated Independence Day,
let us try to really respond with generosity to this call to be missionary
disciples, bring peace to our families, to our places of work, wherever we are
in our daily life, and then practicing the works of mercy. Instead of thinking
about ourselves, thinking about our brothers and sisters that are with us and
especially the ones that are in need. So bringing peace to people and living
the works of mercy, then people will rejoice because we are bringing to them
God’s plan of joy and happiness for our society and our world. So let us, this
week, keep reflecting on the beauty of being missionary disciples. Of bring joy
and peace to our world that is in such a need, especially for peace. So let us
pray for our country on this Independence Day. May our Blessed Mother Mary, and
and all the saints of the America help us to respect human dignity and freedom,
and especially the freedom of religion that we all can discover that beautiful
plan of God for humanity, for each one of us, and for society • AE
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