🌿 IN THE SERVICE OF THE LORD 🌿
Today the Church year brings us to the Sunday of the Apostles, whose theme is “In the Service of the Lord”. The verse of the day leads us to the heart of this theme: “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God.” (Ephesians 2:19)
The Sunday of the Apostles reminds us that the Church does not begin with our ingenuity or the attitudes of the moment, but with the apostles’ witness to Christ. A Christian is not a guest in God’s house, but a member of the household, given a place, a task and a responsibility.
The psalm calls us to praise the greatness of the Lord; the sending of the prophet Ezekiel reminds us of the solemn responsibility of proclaiming the word; the apostolic reading speaks of the Church as a building whose cornerstone is Christ; and in the Gospel Peter confesses Jesus as the Messiah. These texts share one simple and great truth: it is the Lord himself who calls, builds and sends.
The Sunday of the Apostles is therefore not merely a look back into the distant past. It puts a question to the Church today: does our faith remain grounded in the confession of Christ, and are our lives ready to carry that witness onward?
St Irenaeus said that where the Church is, there is also the Spirit of God. On the Sunday of the Apostles this means, quite plainly, that the Church lives by the Holy Spirit when it remains faithful to the apostles’ witness to Christ.
You are warmly welcome to Mass at St Elizabeth’s Church at 10:00. Coffee and fellowship will follow.
