Contemporary Apostle – Reflection on Matthew 10:1-7
With twelve disciples, whom each witnessed and proclaimed within their community, Jesus created a lasting ripple. We continue to be surrounded and embraced in the apostle’s outwardly expanding ripples. Our challenge is to accept that we are also apostles, full of Grace, helping to ensure the ripples continue outward. Doing so strengthens those who already believe, spreads the Good News, and seeks out the lost through love. The mission of a contemporary apostle is to work with Jesus to reveal the Kingdom already here but not fully unveiled. As apostles in this generation, we can create a future generation who can witness our Lord being present.
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Additional Ordinary Time Reflections
Matthew 10:1-8 – Scripture*
The Twelve Apostles
10 Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness. 2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.
The Mission of the Twelve
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.
Additional Thoughts
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