Sunday, April 24, 2022

So many possibilities

“Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” [Mark 16:15-20]

As human beings, we have so many possibilities of how we might proclaim–literally be a herald of–the Good News that is Jesus Christ. Every day we have opportunities to speak and embody in our actions the coming into being of the Kingdom of God. Every day we’re invited to move more deeply into being the unique part of the body of Christ that only we can be, that’s so necessary to the whole. Every day we have new opportunities to shine the light that is God’s gift to us and, through us, to the whole world.

Truly, we have set before us, each moment, life and death [Deuteronomy 30:15]. What we choose matters not only for us but for all. Our every word and action ripples out, carrying with it either life or death. We see that so clearly in the words and actions of our leaders. And we’re no different.

And if we need guidance, we’ve heard from Jesus’ own lips, that He Himself has been anointed “to bring glad tidings to the poor…to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free” [Luke 4:18,21].

This is our work also, each of us and together, as heralds of the Gospel to every creature.

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"I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.

I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor:
the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy.

Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul.

If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy".