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The Apostolic Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

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The apostolic mission of the Church is a continuation of the mission entrusted to Christ by the Father to heal and redeem the world. We have been given the gospel by Christ to preach it to every creature. Thus with the help of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of light and truth, we can drive out all errors of worldly wisdom and share in the renewal of the face of the earth.

But this Samaritan did not have the leisure to live a long time on the earth; he had to return to the place from which he had come down. And so ‘On the next day’ – which is the next day? Surely it is the day of the Lord's resurrection about which it is said. This is the day which the Lord has made?’ – ‘he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, take care of him’. What are these two denarii except the two testaments which have impressed on them the image of the eternal Father? By the price of these our wounds are healed. We have been redeemed by the price of blood to avoid the pains of eternal death. These two denarii, though it is not out of place to understand their faces as the four gospels, the innkeeper took.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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