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We who are Jesus’ disciples today have also been sent to share the Gospel with others.

Jesus continues to send us into the world as his disciples. But like the first disciples, we are not sent alone.

By showing that Jesus himself was rejected, Mark consoles and reassures his first readers. He also prepares us to accept this possible consequence of Christian discipleship.

Each individual must make his or her own act of faith in affirming Jesus as God’s Son.

When we bring our worries to God in prayer, we might just begin to learn to see things from God’s perspective.

In God we live and move and have our being, but God is a mystery and his kingdom, though present, has not yet come into its fullness.

Mark then brings Jesus’ family back into the picture. … This gives Jesus the opportunity to point out that family for him is not based on blood.

Those who drink from the chalice are invited to share in a new covenant which will be sealed by Jesus’ own blood.

As baptized Christians, we share in the life of the blessed Trinity and seek to invite others to share in God’s love.

This Gospel reminds us that the Church is called to be a reconciling presence in the world.