DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
Apostles – Jesus: In today’s Gospel, Jesus called the Twelve Apostles to serve as His closest disciples, for His Mission of evangelizing the Gospel of Salvation to all peoples.
Ponder on, “Is Jesus calling us to serve in His Mission in some special ways in the Church and in our daily living? Are we rejecting His ‘Call’?”
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Mark 3:13-19
Jesus went up onto the mountain and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be sent out to proclaim the message, with power to drive out devils.
And so he appointed the Twelve, Simon to whom he gave the name Peter, James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges or ‘Sons of Thunder’; Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him.