Today’s gospel reiterates the theme of the Baptism of the Lord in that it identified the mission of Jesus as our own mission. There was something unique in Christianity in that it identified itself as an organization that saw its growth as a sign of health. In today’s gospel the challenge given to Peter by Jesus to be “fishers of men” identifies the importance of bringing men and women into the faith. When Jesus was dying on the cross, he uttered the words, “I thirst.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s profound spirituality identified these words as not referring to physical thirst, but rather the thirst for souls. This idea of gathering souls up into the heart of Christ was the essential message of Jesus’s revelation to Mary Margaret Alacoque concerning his Sacred Heart. The command to be “fishers of men” reaches across the centuries and challenges us to live lives that will attract others to the Heart of Christ.