The Mission of the Twelve
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Twenty-Fifth Week Of Ordinary Time Luke 9: 1-6 In the previous chapter, there are a whole lot of significant things mentioned: Women Accompany Jesus, The Parable of the Sower, Purpose of Parables, Parable of the Lamp under a Jar, Jesus’ true family, Jesus calming the […]
The Selection & Mission of the Twelve
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday Of The Fourteenth Week In Ordinary Time Matthew 10:1-7 Yesterday’s Gospel reading was about the Harvest, the authority of Jesus and the necessity of Labourers. Today we have Jesus appointing and commissioning 12 disciples to lead the group of Jesus’ Disciples (in a way an answer to the […]
The Mission of the Twelve
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday Of The Fourth Week In Ordinary Time Mark 6:7-13 People were still chasing and following Jesus from far and near for healing and Blessings, Jesus now delegates his Mission and sends out his twelve disciples with special training and instructions empowering them to break the Word. Knowing that […]
The Mission of the Twelve
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Twenty-Fifth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 9:1-6 This is training in advance, for when the young Church would have to live by what it professes (Church of the Acts of the Apostles), and these very 12 would then be the pillars on which the Church will […]
The Mission of the Twelve
Mark 6:7-13 It can be really surprising to read that the extract of today’s Gospel is taken from the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and it isn’t the mission given to the early church post Jesus’ Resurrection. Last Sunday we heard that Jesus was amazed that the people of Nazareth did not have faith in […]