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On this 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we read how Jesus was troubled by how the people longed to learn more, but there were few people to teach them. Therefore, he called 12 men and told they what they were to do as his ambassadors. We read:
At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”
Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give (Matthew 9: 36 – 10: 8).
Now, more than 2,000 years after Jesus walked the Earth, we are still bemoaning the fact that the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few, and just as in Jesus’ time, we are asking God to send out laborers for his harvest.
Some say the laborers are already here, but we are not welcoming them for one reson or another. Perhaps we should be praying that we be open to the will of the Holy Spirit who might be speaking us through the “signs of the times.”
