We have been given the Good News, Jesus has come in the flesh to redeem us but do we truly know what it means?
What is the Good News of the Kingdom?
Jesus repeats and it fact proclaims what John the Baptist preached “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand!” Do we acknowledge that we need to repent of our sinful ways before can truly experience the kingdom of God?
If we truly understand the Good News then why has the overwhelming joy of knowing and experiencing it not moved us to share it with others?
The Good News is here to heal us! Give glory to God by sharing the message with His children, knowing that His children will listen for the spirit of Truth is within us.
First Reading 1 John 3:22-4:6 ( Read )
Gospel
Matthew 4:12-17,23-25
Hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus went back to Galilee, and leaving Nazareth he went and settled in Capernaum, a lakeside town on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. In this way the prophecy of Isaiah was to be fulfilled:
‘Land of Zebulun! Land of Naphtali!
Way of the sea on the far side of Jordan,
Galilee of the nations!
The people that lived in darkness has seen a great light;
on those who dwell in the land and shadow of death
a light has dawned.’
From that moment Jesus began his preaching with the message, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.’
He went round the whole of Galilee teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness among the people. His fame spread throughout Syria, and those who were suffering from diseases and painful complaints of one kind or another, the possessed, epileptics, the paralysed, were all brought to him, and he cured them. Large crowds followed him, coming from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judaea and Transjordania.
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