Saturday of the First Week of Advent Dec. 9th

Saturday of the First Week of Advent

December 9, 2006

“Jesus went around to all the towns and villages.”
Matthew 9:35

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There are number of people who say they follow Christ who also say they just do not do it. Maybe they do not see it as a demand from Christ or they simply do not know in their hearts the most incredible knowing ever known. Whatever the reason why someone does not take every opportunity to do it, let the excuses cease right now! Pope Paul IV says that it is the reason we exist as a people and a church. Christ demands it of us. As a matter of fact, Christ is it! What is the “it” I am referring to? Evangelization. Evangelization is sharing with others the most incredible, loving and eternally life-giving news ever- Jesus Christ!

Why is it we can go crazy and yell and scream at some sporting event and be silent about Jesus? Why is it that we are not talking about any teams or sporting scores from 2,000 years ago but that we have based all of history on the life of the man-God, Jesus Christ? What does anything we go crazy over, including sports, have to do with eternity and what does Jesus have to do with eternity? Why is there so much anger when we do not win at sports, business, life and we keep on insisting going there when the only thing Jesus offers us in it all is joy and healing love? Why do we keep throwing ourselves into mortal news when we could throw ourselves into the Good News of Jesus Christ who is everlasting life?

Jesus Christ went from town to town, from village to village to share the Good News. He did not only share it with all, he was it! Yes, Jesus Christ is the Good News every soul is desperate for! In him, we are loved, blessed, forgiven! Why are we silent? Cease with this crime. Stop killing others by letting them die without knowing the Lord.

Brothers and sisters, keep the faith- but not to yourself!

Love is spelled T-I-M-E,

Fr. John