Gospel: Mark 1: 29-39
In today's Gospel reading Jesus tells his disciples that he must go from town to town proclaiming Good News, for that is why he came into the world. The fundamental mission of Jesus in the world is to proclaim Good News to people in all places and to all people. It is not for a particular group of people in a specific time and place; it is for everyone at all times and places.
By extension our mission as followers of Jesus is to proclaim Good News to everyone. We find people mired in bad news, obsessed with media news and the ideologies that seek to rule over the rubble of the incessant bad news that is reported. But are we obsessed with the bad news as well, are we moved more by the ideologies than the Gospel itself? Are we proclaiming Good News?
Every human life has Good News, for God is present in the life of every person, every person is created and loved by God. It is our task to love every person as well and to remind all people that God loves them, that God has delivered us from our demons and called us to a life of love. In every life God has manifest love in some way. It is for us to find it and to bring loving presence to others in our words and deeds just as Jesus did. That is proclaiming Good News; that is ridding the world of its demons.
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