‘The harvest is rich but the labourers are few.” Why are the labourers few? If each and everyone of us goes out into the harvest will we not be plenty? Would we not be enough? How come we do not see in today’s Gospel that we are the seventy two sent? To share with the world that we know our Redeemer lives! And He will set us close Him when we awake.
I used to have a silly concern. Where do I lead the unbelivers when reaching out to them and they are touched by the Lord? What if RCIA only starts in a few months? What do they do till then? Can I possibly journey all the way with them when I have so many things to do?
I had totally forgotten that it was not I who touched them, it was He our Redeemer! It is His eyes they shall affix their gaze. Will the Holy Spirit cease working after I’ve done my part? Will His peace, mercy and love depart from them? Nay! For He is our Rock, and a firm foundation.
Lord into Your hands I commend my spirit. Amen
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First reading
Job 19:21-27 ·
My Avenger lives and will set me close to him when I awake
Job said:
Pity me, pity me, you, my friends,
for the hand of God has struck me.
Why do you hound me down like God, will you never have enough of my flesh?
Ah, would that these words of mine were written down, inscribed on some monument
with iron chisel and engraving tool, cut into the rock for ever.
This I know: that my Avenger lives, and he, the Last, will take his stand on earth.
After my awaking, he will set me close to him, and from my flesh I shall look on God.
He whom I shall see will take my part: these eyes will gaze on him and find him not aloof.
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Gospel
Luke 10:1-12
Your peace will rest on that man
The Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him, in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself was to visit. He said to them, , so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to his harvest. Start off now, but remember, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no purse, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road. Whatever house you go into, let your first words be, “Peace to this house!” And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you. Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house. Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you. Cure those in it who are sick, and say, “The kingdom of God is very near to you.” But whenever you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, “We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet, and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very near.” I tell you, on that day it will not go as hard with Sodom as with that town.’
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