Called to be messengers

WORD 2day: Thursday, 4th week in Easter time

April 30, 2026 - Acts 13:13-25; John 13:16-20

St. Paul makes a long list of messengers running right upto John the Baptist; Jesus in the Gospel, speaks of sending his own apostles as messengers. 

Messengers are people of God, people of the Message, people who carry what the Lord wants God's people to know, persons who share with the world what the Lord wants to. 

The Message, is the core of our faith. It has been so, it is so and it will always be so! They call it the Kerygma! 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. Wow! What a wonderful experience, we are speaking of here! 

After this crucial phase of the identification of the Message with the Messenger, in Christ the Message of the loving Father made Messenger,  we see that, what once was done by a select few among the people, has been handed over to the entire people of God and every child of God. This is indeed the call of every Christ-ian. The wonderful experience now becomes a duty given to us. 

We are His messengers and we are called primarily to live the message and in and through that, announce the Message to the World. Now the question is - am I aware of the Message? 

Do I really know the Message? Am I convinced that I am a messenger? Do I love the Message as much and in order that I may live that message?