Jesus Appoints – Mark 3:13-19 Reflection
Has Jesus summoned you? Have you turned towards him in conversation? As you walk with Jesus, do you have certainty that He is walking with you? In faith, do you believe in the gift of His authority within you? Consider that you come after the Apostles’ moment of summoning, reading about what they have accomplished. What of the additional two millennia of history of observing other Christians that was called? Push aside any doubts in this reflection moment, the world needs both disciples and apostles. Some are called to be disciples, learning how to be Christ-like. Others are called to be Apostles, teaching how to be Christ-like. You can discern what Christ asks from you through deep prayer and reflection. Jesus appoints you to be and do as Him like all others before.
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Additional Ordinary Time Reflections
Mark 3:13-19 – Scripture*
Jesus Appoints the Twelve
13 He went up the mountain and called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message, 15 and to have authority to cast out demons. 16 So he appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17 James son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Additional thoughts
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