THE GOSPEL
Mark 6:7-13Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two.
Sent on a mission.
This is why
we are
here.
Lord,
help us.
Let us take
your healing love
to all our neighbors,
down all our back-streets,
to the boarders and the ends
of this earth and beyond,
to the environment
you lovingly
give to
us.
No
money
in our belts,
no clean socks,
no backpack
no
food.
Give to us this day,
complete and
total trust
in you.
THE FIRST READING
Amos 7:12-15
I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets;
I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores.
God told Amos,
shepherd
and
dresser
of sycamores,
“Go to my people.”
God told
Ignatius Loyola,
vain soldier, “teach
my people the manner to pray.”
To Dorothy Day, doubting journalist,
“Shelter my homeless.”
To
Mother Theresa,
“Care of my
poor.”
Father of us all, teach us please. Then
let us teach your beloved people
how to pray, and how to
shelter your homeless,
and how to care
for your
poor.
THE SECOND READING
Ephesians 1:3-14 or 1:3-10
In him you … were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
which is the first installment of our inheritance.
Forgiven. Redeemed.
Grace upon
grace heaped upon us.
The first “installment of our legacy.”
What is to follow?
Holy Spirit,
bottomless treasure,
open us to your good self
now and for all
eternity.
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