Gospel: Mark 16: 15-20
Jesus encourages and exhorts his disciples to proclaim the Good News. In what does this good news consist? Jesus came to announce the coming of God's kingdom, a kingdom that would replace the drudgery and oppression of this world's kingdom. Where the kingdom's of the world rule through coercion, violence, and division through a myriad of rules, the kingdom of God proclaims one law of love and provides the example of Jesus by which to live.
All the healings of Jesus represent liberation from sin in the various ways people of Jesus' time understood it. People recognized this fact as they encountered Jesus in their lives. They saw the good news present in the person and actions of Jesus. This good news should permeate and animate our lives to such an extent that its joy will propel us to share good news as we would in any other situation of good news in our lives.
That people no longer see the Gospel as good news represents the fact that we have not proclaimed it as good news. It has been proclaimed as a threat, a coercive action, a myriad of laws and rules that lead to the same oppression the kingdoms of the world bring to us. Today, we commit ourselves to the joy of the good news, inviting others to share it in full freedom and love.
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