Jesus Sees Something in You
6/10/202615 min
Friends, on this Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Gospel is about Jesus sending the Twelve on a mission. Whenever we hear about the Twelve, it’s the Church in seminal form. And here’s what I want to focus on: Whom does Jesus call to be his apostles? Not the best and brightest people of his time but fairly ordinary and even compromised characters. Yet Jesus sees something in every one of them—some gift, virtue, or capacity needed in the life of the Church.
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Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and his church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's word where it is most needed. Today, we invite you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.
Robert Barron· Host0:36
Peace be with you. Friends, we come now to the 11th Sunday in ordinary time, and it's, I always find with a certain, um, you know, sigh of relief. I, I love all the high holy days and with Lent and Easter and, and then Pentecost and Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi. We have this whole, you know, series of, of great feasts, and then we, we turn back to ordinary time. And, and I always do so with a certain sense of, all right, good, we're, we're back to, we're back to basics again, back to ordinary things. And I think it's appropriate the gospel for, uh, this return to ordinary time is about Jesus sending the 12 on a, um, mission. You know, whenever you hear Jesus and the 12, Jesus and the apostles, it's the church. Now, not the church in the sense of the Vatican and dioceses and all that. That's, those are later developments. But,