Taste and See: Call and Promise

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Alleluia, alleluia!
Go, make disciples of all the nations.
I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Alleluia!

That is one urgent-sounding, direct and explicit command of the Lord!

Go, make disciples of all the nations.

It was repeated to us yesterday in this acclamation and the Gospel which followed it, and in the first reading too. And almost certainly you heard it in some form or other in the homily and in the Prayer of the Faithful.

  • So, one day on: how do you intend to ‘Go, make disciples’?

I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

I suppose the accompanying phrase might sometimes seem like a threat? Do we really want the Lord with us always? Always? So he sees all we get up to?

But hopefully, at least mostly, we will see it as comforting and hopeful that we are not alone…

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