HE BEGAN TO SEND THEM OUT

PRAYER PAUSE  

Thursday 1 February 2018, Brigid

HE BEGAN TO SEND THEM OUT

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Jesus make a tour around the villages, teaching. Then he summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean spirits.” (Mark 6:7-13)

Reflection. This chapter 6 of Mark opened with the people of Nazareth saying, “This (Jesus) is the carpenter, surely.” Yes, he is the carpenter, the maker of a new world and today he is “beginning” to send out the twelve to help him do the work. We are all part of that mission. Shakespeare called the whole world “a stage” with us as players and the bard mirrored the achievements and the follies of human kind on that platform. What he mirrored is the real thing Jesus inaugurates, in the workshop of our lives; the “new heaven and the new earth.” And, working “with him and in him and through him”, we fashion ourselves and the world around us in his image.

Prayer. Jesus, our Lord and God, we pray for the inspiration to live and work that Our Father’s will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.