Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 16, 15-20
And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.’
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.
With our feet on the ground and our eyes on heaven
1) Our feet on the ground. As Christians, you and I know that extremes are wrong. We are called upon to live simply, to be ‘normal’. With our feet on the ground, we cannot be crazy Christians that live in an unreal world. We must be aware of reality and also insert ourselves in it, we must live in the world, like normal people.
2) Our eyes on heaven. We cannot be so ‘realistic’ to the extreme of becoming pessimistic, canceling the work of God inside us. Our eyes up above means that there is always hope for the person who believes. It is knowing that you must give everything to God, including the obstacles in your life that you are unable to solve. It also implies that you do what you can, and God will do what you cannot.
3) Go out and proclaim the Gospel. We cannot be a mummified Church, a wrinkled and inactive Church. We have to go out and proclaim without looking at whether a person prays in Latin or with drums. I mean, we must all go out and announce. We have to be united and respect all gifts and charisms of the Holy Spirit in the Church and serve the Church as she deserves to be served. United to the Pope, Peter’s successor, let us make this world more beautiful and let us bring peace with our testimony.
God bless you in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Remember that Heaven is our goal!
