Newsletter – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C.

We don’t know their names, but we know that three dozen pairs – thirty-six partnerships – set out on this adventure, not knowing what to expect. They took no suitcases, no supplies, no map, and they had no plan. Yet they trusted Jesus, and they went because the harvest was ready and there weren’t many workers. Jesus needed them.

Would you have gone on such a journey if you had been around in those days with Jesus and he asked you to? Why or why not?

If you wanted to go on a mission trip with a church group that had the same expectations as this trip with the seventy-two – no luggage, no plan, no supplies, and the like – would your parents let you go? Why or why not?

Would you be willing to do it as an adult? Why or why not?

Do Jesus’ instructions for the seventy-two disciples have any meaning for your life journey? These seventy-two followers seemed to ‘do the impossible’. They had a mission, they had confidence and they succeeded.

Have you ever attempted to do the impossible? What happened? Were you successful? What did others think?