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GOSPEL POWER - JANUARY 25, 2021 - MONDAY
GOSPEL POWER - JANUARY 25, 2021 - MONDAY
CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, APOSTLE
Gospel: Mk 16:15-18
Jesus said to the Eleven, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
REFLECTION
Today, with our growing awareness of the connectedness of everything in the universe, we can appreciate the way Mark presents the mission mandate to the Eleven, specifying “the whole creation” as the audience of the Gospel proclamation. For salvation is integral and cosmic. Even if only human beings commit sin, our sinfulness drags the entire creation to the brink of disaster. The fate of the whole creation is interlocked with the fate of humanity. That is why St. Paul describes the whole creation as groaning in labor pains, awaiting the generation of the children of God (cf. Rom 8: 19, 22). With the self-sacrifice and resurrection of the firstborn Son of God, the generation of the other children of God — the stewards of creation envisioned in Genesis 2 — has begun. The whole creation has to hear this good news.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, as we welcome the Gospel proclamation and live by it, may we truly become the stewards that creation awaits with eager longing. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER - JANUARY 25, 2021 - MONDAY
CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, APOSTLE
Gospel: Mk 16:15-18
Jesus said to the Eleven, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
REFLECTION
Today, with our growing awareness of the connectedness of everything in the universe, we can appreciate the way Mark presents the mission mandate to the Eleven, specifying “the whole creation” as the audience of the Gospel proclamation. For salvation is integral and cosmic. Even if only human beings commit sin, our sinfulness drags the entire creation to the brink of disaster. The fate of the whole creation is interlocked with the fate of humanity. That is why St. Paul describes the whole creation as groaning in labor pains, awaiting the generation of the children of God (cf. Rom 8: 19, 22). With the self-sacrifice and resurrection of the firstborn Son of God, the generation of the other children of God — the stewards of creation envisioned in Genesis 2 — has begun. The whole creation has to hear this good news.
PRAYER
Lord Jesus, as we welcome the Gospel proclamation and live by it, may we truly become the stewards that creation awaits with eager longing. Amen.