Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time
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“I will thank you always for what you have done, and proclaim the goodness of your name before your faithful ones.” (Psalms 52:11)
“At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, ‘To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the
Piety
Lord, instill in me the courage to move outside of my “town” and to proclaim your Word. Give me the awareness I need to fulfill the purpose for which you made me.
Study
Pope Benedict XVI on Evangelization in Latin America
Preaching to the choir is so much easier than what Jesus does in today’s Gospel.
The crowds wanted him to stay; surely, at least some of them were people who truly loved him, believed in him, and wanted to be with him. But he tells them he has to move on and share the good news with others “because for this purpose I have been sent.”
A few months ago, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to Latin American bishops in
The pope called on the Church in
Note Benedict XVI’s language—“bring the good news of salvation to his brothers and sisters.” The pope didn’t say to talk about Christ only to active Catholics or inactive Catholics or even only to Christians. Indeed, he said, when God is excluded from the horizons of humankind in general, people “can only end up in blind alleys or with recipes for destruction.”
Action
Resolve today to share the good news with someone outside your cocoon. Leave a comment on the blog where this commentary and others reside (the link is above). Send a link to a favorite Tripod column to a non-Catholic friend. Don’t care for the Daily Tripod? Check out one of the other Catholic blog links Tony provides at the bottom of the page and comment there or send that link to a friend. Be like Jesus. Remember the purpose for which you have been sent.
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