The Handing over
Remembering John de Britto
1 Kgs 2:1-4,10-12; Mk 6:7-13
David hands it over to Solomon; Jesus hands it over to his apostles; the Apostles have handed it over to us! We have to take it forward! While Jesus gives a long prescription of how to take it forward, David sums it all up or the Lord sums it all up to David in a phrase: “If your sons are careful how they behave, and walk loyally before me with all their heart and soul"... that's the key!
Persons like John de Britto, St Thomas and others who had come to India and given up their lives are examples for us to live what is handed over to us. The key that the first reading gives us is absolute. It binds me in my conscience not merely in my external behaviour. Living for God is proclaiming God; living for God's Reign is establishing God's Reign here and now!