“Everyone to whom much is given, of him will much be required;
and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.” (Luke 12:48)

Jesus sends his disciples on mission. He "summoned the Twelve . . .
and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick."
As members of the Mystical Body, we share the mission of evangelization.

In accord with the subjectivism of our culture,
many Christians think of their spiritual lives in an individualist way,
as the cultivation of their personal friendships with God.
But this overlooks something that the New Testament authors took for granted—namely,
that Christians exist not for themselves but for the world.

Jesus compared his followers to salt, which is designed to preserve and enhance something other than itself,
and to light, whose purpose is to be set on a stand in order to illumine what is around it.
Pope St. Paul VI articulated the same truth as follows:
The Church doesn't have a mission; the Church is a mission.

We go forth, therefore, with God's authority and empowered for his work.
When we stand before the judgment seat of Christ,
he will ask whether we have taught the world how to praise,
how to reverence the truth,
(Bp. Barron)

You realize one day, that you have been given much, so much Grace from God, and the purpose of that is so that you can give it away.
You must give it to someone else, or it becomes worthless, and dies.
We MUST go and make disciples of ALL nations.

Faith in what we cannot see.

When the Pew study came out that screamed 75% of Catholics (of 1800 polled) did not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist came out-
albeit inaccurate - was a wakeup call for all Catholics to do a reality check and revitalize their faith.
THAT was the Spirit of Vatican II- to strive for Holiness in a very unholy world.
We have let the secular propaganda overtake that Sacred Mission of the Church and it is time to energize our mission that God wants for us, commands of us actually.

The starting point is to bring fallen away and lapsed Catholics back into Mass and into the Eucharist again.
I know how life changing this will be- because I once had left the Church.
But that requires fighting agenda-driven folks who work hard to keep those away from Christ in the Eucharist.
Christ prayed that we all will be One.

Love it or hate it- the intelligence and scholarship of the following of my fave people are key to understanding our faith in today's world.

Bishop Barron
Scott Hahn
Steve Ray
John Bergsma
Peter Kreeft
Flannery O'Connor
Bp. Fulton Sheen
(Less contemporary)
GK Chesterton
CS Lewis (If you read only ONE book- I believe it should be Mere Christianity- it did it for me.)

From Vatican II
Lumen Gentium; Chap. II: 14;

14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful.
Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now sojourning on earth as an exile, is necessary for salvation.
Christ, present to us in His Body, which is the Church, is the one Mediator and the unique way of salvation.
In explicit terms He Himself affirmed the necessity of faith and baptism(124) and thereby affirmed also the necessity of the Church,
for through baptism as through a door men enter the Church.
Whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ,
would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved.