You and I have been chosen! For by our baptism, we have been raised to new life in Christ Jesus and He has commanded us to share that the Kingdom of God is at hand. But we often overlook what comes next or rather think that we are able to for we are not holy enough, pure or good enough!
We must remember that likewise what comes next is a command and not a suggestion, that we are to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely we have received; freely give. Matt 10:8 The more we carry out what we have already been given, or rather empowered to do then we will surely grow in confidence in ministering to all according to Jesus our Lord! Two we can start with straightaway, is healing the sick and delivering those sent our way from the bondages of evil. For when we embrace that we are mere instruments of His grace then surely His grace abounds in us.
Lord I am not worthy, yet You have made me worthy. Amen
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First reading
Colossians 2:6-15 ·
The Lord has brought you to life with him
You must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received – Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving.
Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some second-hand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ.
In his body lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment, in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power.
In him you have been circumcised, with a circumcision not performed by human hand, but by the complete stripping of your body of flesh. This is circumcision according to Christ. You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead. You were dead, because you were sinners and had not been circumcised: he has brought you to life with him, he has forgiven us all our sins.
He has overridden the Law, and cancelled every record of the debt that we had to pay; he has done away with it by nailing it to the cross; and so he got rid of the Sovereignties and the Powers, and paraded them in public, behind him in his triumphal procession.
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Gospel
Luke 6:12-19
Jesus chooses his twelve apostles
Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.
He then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.
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