February 07, 2019
Thursday, 4th week in Ordinary time
Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24; Mark 6: 7-13
Right at the start, Jesus initiated the Reign with a sense of urgency. It was very true because Jesus was not an isolated reality or a mere solitary person. Jesus was the climax of God's self revelation to the world... the fullness of revelation and the summation of it. And in the second Reign was already there in their midst and Jesus was perfectly justified in saying: the Reign of God is in your midst (Lk 17:21).
The Indian Church singles out a martyr from the list of martyrs that we celebrated yesterday: Gonsalo Garcia, the first Indian to be raised to the altar. He was a third order Franciscan friar and he went about in his simplicity and fervour and joined the missionaries to Japan and they were crucified at Nagasaki. All that mattered to them was the Reign and making it known to everyone!
If it were so 2000 years ago, and if it were so in the recent centuries, what do we make of today and our responsibility here and now? Do I have a sense of urgency about making present the Reign of God here and now?
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