Handing on: Retelling the Story
Thursday, 4th week in Easter
Acts 13: 13-25; Jn 13:16-20
These days, I am preparing to hand over the Centre that I have been taking care of for the past three years. The one who is going to take up the responsibility is already announced and it is time for me to hand it over. At this juncture the usual concern is, what happens to everything that I built up bit by bit. I cannot but read today's word from this background. Jesus hands over his task to be continued by the disciples, the task of taking the good news further to the ends of the world.
Taking the good news to the ends of the world is Evangelisation. One definition that I have loved about evengelisation goes, 'evangelisation is retelling the story of Jesus'. That is exactly what Paul does in the synagogue in the first reading - retelling the story of Jesus from the Old Testament. Yes, tracing the roots of Jesus in the Old Testament, Paul retells the story of Jesus to make people aware how Jesus is the awaited Messiah.
Do we retell the story of Jesus whenever we get an opportunity...from our own background, from our own context, basing on our own concerns? We are all evangelisers in our own right, every one of us by our very baptism. Let us never forget that fact.
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