28 April 2021
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
The 1st reading of today’s Mass invites me to focus on Paul and Barnabas bringing Christ’s gospel to Antioch, and to see that from here the Church spreads throughout the world.
I can appreciate better this historic event in the light of today’s Gospel where Jesus says he is the Savior of the world. He did not come to condemn, but to save. All of us in the Church collaborate in this same mission to transmit the saving faith to others.
At each mass I collaborate more fully with what Paul and Barnabas began at Antioch. I welcome the Word of God. With the Eucharistic Christ I unite myself more intimately with the Father, who continues the work begun at Antioch, and with the Holy Spirit, who dwells within me, giving me the knowledge and strength to collaborate in the missionary work of the Church, the work that saves, the work at which I am a collaborator.