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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Go out and proclaim the Good News!



I hope all my readers have discovered the Lenten reflections that are appearing on the Province website - link on the side. As my blog also appears on the website, I think many do look at it every day. There is a brown button on the right on the Province website that says "For Lent" so click on that and you will find a daily, short, reflection to nourish you. In the meantime, I am giving you excerpts from The Gospel of Joy:

  1. The kingdom, already present and growing in our midst, engages us at every level of our being and reminds us of the principle of discernment which Pope Paul VI applied to true development: it must be directed to "all men and the whole man".145 We know that "evangelization would not be complete if it did not take account of the unceasing interplay of the Gospel and of man’s concrete life, both personal and social".146 This is the principle of universality intrinsic to the Gospel, for the Father desires the salvation of every man and woman, and his saving plan consists in "gathering up all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth" (Eph 1:10). Our mandate is to "go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation" (Mk 16:15), for "the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God" (Rom 8:19). Here, "the creation" refers to every aspect of human life; consequently, "the mission of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ has a universal destination. Its mandate of charity encompasses all dimensions of existence, all individuals, all areas of community life, and all peoples. Nothing human can be alien to it.
Am I going out to others? Is this blog a way to proclaim the Good News? Am I revealing Jesus to others by my love, my serving with joy?

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