Words of the Holy Father-Baptism that makes us missionaries-09-25-24

 Words of the Holy Father-Baptism that makes us missionaries-09-25-24

This episode of the Gospel also applies to us and not only to priests but to all baptized people called to witness to the Gospel of Christ in the various spheres of life.

 (…) No Christian proclaims the Gospel “on his/her own”, but is only sent by the Church who received the mandate from Jesus himself. Indeed it is Baptism that makes us missionaries. A baptized person who does not feel the need to proclaim the Gospel, to proclaim Jesus, is not a good Christian.

The second characteristic of the missionary’s style is, so to speak, a face, which consists in the poverty of means. His accoutrement responds to a criteria of modesty. (…) The Teacher wants them to be free and unhampered, without reserves and without favours, certain only of the love of the One who sends them, strengthened only by his Word which they go to proclaim. (…) They were not officials or business people, but rather humble workers of the Kingdom. This was the face they had. And to this “face” also belongs the way the message is received: it can happen that one is not welcomed or listened to. This too is poverty: the experience of failure. The experience of Jesus who was rejected and crucified anticipates the destiny of his messenger. And only if we are united to Him, who died and Rose, can we find the courage to evangelize. (Angelus, 15 July 2018)


Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time


Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html 


Gospel in Art: Take neither staff, nor haversack, nor bread, nor money https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/50711


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