MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE LORD’S MISSION! ~ CookingFood.Org

“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”

Friday, 16^th September 2016,

Twenty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Cornelius and Cyprian, Martyrs

1 Cor 15: 12-20;

Ps 16: 1, 6-8, 15;

Lk 8: 1-3

MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE LORD’S MISSION!

Luke informs us about the vital role which a large number of women played in supporting the ministry of our Lord and his disciples. Regardless of the diversity among the women, they all seemed to have in common that: Jesus had miraculously delivered (healed) them of conditions for which there was no human solution. In one sense, the group which accompanied Jesus was a testimony to the identity of Jesus Christ as Messiah. These women were not mere ‘clingers-on’, they were active contributors to the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom. When Jesus sent out the 12 (Lk 9: 1-6) and the 72 (Lk 10: 1-12), He told them to take nothing. That was because they were to be ministering to those to whom they came, among whom they lived and served. We should be doing what these women were doing. They loved Christ so much, they served him and his followers out of their substance.

Did Jesus need their service? No. Did he need their food? No. If Jesus had wanted to, he could have carried a piece of bread around in his pocket, and any time he and his apostles got hungry, he could have just multiplied that piece of bread into a basket full. Why couldn’t he do it? Because if there is one thing Jesus enjoys more than providing for people, it is when people provide for him because they love him. He doesn’t need such provision, but he loves to receive it. It gives him great joy to be loved.

Prayer: Lord, grant me such a generous heart. Amen.