Called to be Messengers
Acts 13:13-25; Jn 13:16-20
St. Paul makes a long list of messengers running right upto John the Baptist, and Jesus in the Gospel, speaks of sending his own apostles as messengers. The Message, is the core of our faith. It has been so, it is so and it will always be so! The message was announced through ages through prophets and persons of God (cf. Heb 1:1). At a point in history, the Message became the Messenger...that was the crucial phase of history when the Message, the Sender, the Messenger (or the Medium) all came together in one sacred and mysterious union - in the person of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word.
What was once done by a select few among the people, with the coming of Christ, has been handed over to the entire people of God and every child of God. We are His messengers and we are called primarily to live the message and in and through that, announce the Message to the World.
Am I aware of the Message; Do I really know the Message? Do I love the Message in order that I may live that message!