Jesus founded his Church on the Twelve Apostles

 

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Today the Lord tells us that we are built on the Twelve Apostles. They are his witnesses and supremely to his Resurrection. Through the experience of the Resurrection of Jesus, these ignorant, fearful, and unreliable men were transformed into the indomitable witnesses to Jesus. They willingly and happily died for the truth of their witness.

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Jesus founded his Church on the Twelve Apostles

 

Gospel

Luke 6:12-16

Jesus chooses his twelve apostles

Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.

 

Prayerful reflection

The leaders of the Jews have rejected Jesus as the Messiah. He now founds the new people of God. They too like the people of  God of the Old Testament are founded on the Twelve. There were twelve tribes of Israel and so Jesus chooses the twelve to be the foundation stones of the new people of God, his Church. His Church is founded on the Twelve Apostles. They are the witnesses to his Resurrection and they hand on the Sacraments that Jesus instituted to continue his saving work throughout the ages until the end of time. the greatest of these is the Holy Eucharist. Through the Holy Eucharist faithfully handed on to the Church by the Apostles we are able to meet Jesus, live with him and be the sheep of his flock. From the moment of the Ascension the apostles have broken bread, which is the Biblical word for our Holy Eucharist. May we believe in and treasure Jesus in the Eucharist.

 

Tuesday 27 October 2020

 

Gospel

Luke 13:18-21

The kingdom of God is like the yeast that leavened three measures of flour

Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’

Another thing he said, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’

Prayerful reflection

God is God. We, humans, often make plans and dream dreams but are never able to realise them. We are only human, after all. God’s ways are not our way, his thoughts are not our thoughts, but he is thee almighty and all loving God. He works out his plan, even though we might think it is lost completely. When the Jews saw Jerusalem destroyed by the Babylonians, their sacred Temple razed to the ground, their priesthood and sacrifices abolished, they must have thought in despair that all was lost. Yet God was still in charge and working out his plan for the salvation of the world. Likewise no doubt the apostles, very ordinary and little educated men, must have thought ‘what can we do?’ Surely, they could do nothing but they were not alone. God was with them. Like the seed planted in the field, things start small, but God is at work all the time and he will realise his plans.