Gospel: Mark 1: 14-20
Repent and believe the Good News. This is the message of Jesus to the world, a world that is obsessed with bad news. Scroll through news feeds, newspapers, and TV news and what we find is an incessant procession of bad news: wars, disease, environmental disaster, violence and conflict. And the solution offered is always some form of political and governmental intervention. We are conditioned to seek our salvation in the cycle of political candidates.
But Jesus comes and tells us to repent of all this. For our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we await our savior, the Lord Jesus. Jesus came to tell us the kingdom of God has come and is already in your midst, for it is exists within you. It is the person of Jesus himself who shows us the way to God, the way to live on earth that provides others with good news: healing others of their infirmities, delivering others from the demons of bad news, feeding those in hunger and sharing table with outcasts and sinners.
In every human life good news exists, for God is present within each human being. God has created each one of us as a divine image, has made each one a temple of the Holy Spirit, and sees each one of us as an image of Jesus himself. To believe the Good News is to believe that of each person we encounter, to help others see this reality as well and to live it in loving service.
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