The Scriptures this weekend are about announcing the Good News. They remind us that announcing the Good News of the Kingdom by words, deeds, and life is not to be left to others to do. It is a task for all baptised Christians. Yes it is for us to do. Paul reminds us of this in the second reading that it is the mission of each member of the Church to bear witness to the saving power of the cross of Christ through a life of sacrificial, self-giving service.
Saint Teresa of Avila wrote this famous set of instructions about what we are to do:
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks with compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours. So, this week and every week, let us do our best to do as she has instructed.