29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Sunday our focus turns to Mission and the Missionary activity across the world.
Growing up, experience of Mission was two fold, on one hand, the priests who came to the village in the depths of winter. We trekked to Mass in the dark each night for a week to be preached at. And on the way home from the church, you made your way through the stands selling every kind of religious goods imaginable and some unimaginable.
And on the other hand, those out in the world spreading the Gospel to those who did not have ‘Jesus’ in their lives. I did not see myself as Missionary.
Today, I know that I share, along with all others, in the mission of God in responding to the Spirit active and at work in everything and everyone. Our missionary task is to enable that Spirit at work in our own lives, to be visible so as to help others come to the realisation of the love and hope that exists in our world.
(adapted from reflections on the Gospel by Kieran O’Mahony SA, www.tarsus.ie )
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