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4th Week, Ordinary Time : Thursday, 6th February 2025

Daily Word Of God

Mark 6:7-13

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, giving them authority over unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses. They were to wear sandals but, he added, ‘Don’t take a spare tunic.’

And he said to them, ‘If you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district. And if any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, as you walk away shake off the dust under your feet as evidence to them.’ So they set off to proclaim repentance; and they cast out many devils, and anointed many sick people with oil and cured them.

Today's Pointers on God's Word

As you read the passage what words, phases or meanings caught your attention?

  • Jesus empowers His disciples to proclaim the Good News of Salvation. They take no worldly things with them, but depend totally on God’s providence.

 

  • By our Baptism we too are empowered to proclaim the Gospel in our daily life. However, we cannot be effective channels of God’s Grace if we are preoccupied with material possessions and secular matters.

 

  • Do we truly trust God to provide for all our needs? Ask the Holy Spirit to free us from worldly attachments and to joyfully pursue only the things of Heaven.