REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL 11 JULY 2012

Empowering the disciples and providing the authority to deliver the Word is key in today’s passage. This is God’s “A team” to begin their mission on earth. He tells them initially to focus on the “lost sheep” of Israel, the lost tribes that have moved away from the God of the Old Testament. This mission will be expanded later to include all Gentiles. All mankind.

REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL AND READINGS 10 JULY 2012

 

In today’s world we are faced with much in the way of distractions, expectations and the promise of falsehoods. In an election year, perhaps even more so, as the air waves are full of false promises, deceptions and misdirection. Consider within ourselves for a few moments what leadership Jesus would want us provide, how he wants his laborers to labor and his shepherds to care for others.