Gospel
text (Mathew 10,1-7):
Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority over the
unclean spirits to drive them out and to heal every disease and sickness. These
are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and his
brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and
Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus,
and Thaddaeus; Simon, the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, the man who would
betray him. Jesus sent these twelve on mission with the instruction: «Do not
visit pagan territory and do not enter a Samaritan town. Go instead to the lost
sheep of the people of Israel. Go and proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of
heaven is near’».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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