they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.”
So then, after speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven and took his place at the right hand of God.
The Eleven went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.
REFLECTION:
The First Letter of Peter gives sound advice to those who have now become part of the early Church and who are tasked to bring the Good News to everyone they meet.
And they are reminded that they are “to place all their worries” in Jesus because he will always be with them.
The Gospel of Mark in fact relates how Jesus, before returning to the Father in heaven,
commissions his disciples to preach in his name and to trust in his abiding presence.
We are never given a task or a mission that we are incapable of accomplishing, nor do we do it all by ourselves.
No Christian is a missionary on his own. We are always missionaries “with the Church”, and we are always “sent by Christ”.
We therefore do not preach ourselves or our own message, but the message of the Gospel, given by Christ to his Church,
the community of believers to which we belong.
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