Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Mark 6:7-13
“Then he summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean spirits”. Jesus is sending the apostles with the mission to preach repentance, to cast our devils, and to cure sick people. He wants to extend His mission with a personal touch. Jesus, the second person of the Holy Trinity, could have done a miracle to extend His mission to anyone and to everywhere. But He prefers to do through His apostles and disciples to have His mission extended to other with the same principle of incarnation. That is why the two conditions: Take nothing and stay in the same place. Take nothing because the only resource of this mission is the grace of God. It must be totally dependent on God and His providence. It’s a radical dependence on God not even to have the possibility of a spare tunic. Then to stay in one place. This is to have a true interpersonal profound relationship not just a superficial relationship with persons. If you are moving from one place of stay to another, there is no profound relationship with anyone. Only just fleeing and shallow relationships with the people you are interacting. Let’s reflect: To continue the mission of Jesus we must have radical dependence of God and profound relationship with others.
Thursday 1 February
