Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Team Efforts

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 7.3.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

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Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 10:1–12, 17–20

Friends, our Gospel today, taken from the magnificent tenth chapter of Luke’s Gospel,
is a portrait of the Church. It shows us what Jesus wants his followers to be doing and how to do it.
Listen to how the passage begins:
“The Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs
to every town and place he intended to visit.”

We are a missionary Church.
We are sent by the Lord to spread his word and do his work.
The Christian Gospel is just not something that we are meant to cling to for our own benefit.
Rather, it is like seed that we are meant to give away.

He sends them two by two. We do this work together, with others, in community.
Ministers need people to support them, pray for them,
talk to them, challenge them.
Francis has an experience of God and then, within months, gathers people around him;
Dominic, from the beginning, has brothers in his work;
Mother Teresa attracted a number of her former students to join her in her mission.
We don’t go it alone.

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+++ At that time the Lord appointed
seventy-two others
whom he sent ahead of him in pairs
to every town and place he intended
to visit.
He said to them,
"The harvest is abundant but the
laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.
Go on your way;
behold, I am sending you like lambs
among wolves.
Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;
and greet no one along the way.
Into whatever house you enter, first say,
'Peace to this household.'
If a peaceful person lives there,
your peace will rest on him;
but if not, it will return to you.
Stay in the same house and eat and
drink what is offered to you,
for the laborer deserves his payment.
Do not move about from one house to another.
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.'
Whatever town you enter and they do
not receive you,
go out into the streets and say,
'The dust of your town that clings
to our feet,
even that we shake off against you.'
Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.
I tell you,
it will be more tolerable for Sodom
on that day than for that town."

The seventy-two returned rejoicing,
and said,
"Lord, even the demons are subject
to us because of your name."
Jesus said, "I have observed Satan
fall like lightning from the sky.
Behold, I have given you the power
to 'tread upon serpents' and and upon the full force of the enemy
and nothing will harm you.
Nevertheless, do not rejoice because
the spirits are subject to you,
but rejoice because your names are
written in heaven."+++

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We are a missionary Church.
We are sent by the Lord to spread his word and do his work.

No according to Humble Jorge:

Pope says proselytism (read: evangelism) is “solemn nonsense”