 And then with the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Red County Spirit, Red County Spirit One more time and open the palms of your hands in receptivity. Holy Spirit, Red County, Come Holy Ghost Holy Spirit, Red County Spirit Holy Ghost, and fill the hearts of your people. Renew the face of the earth. Come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts as we gather together to learn about this inheritance that we have received. The gift of eternal life in our brother Jesus Christ and teach us how to share that inheritance with others. Come Holy Spirit through Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Father, one God forever and ever, amen. And then with the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Good afternoon. How are you all doing? How many of you are sleepy? Raise your hands. There we go. Okay. Okay, just so you know, I've got some cold water here and all the assistants, all the guys and girls in black shirts, they have cold water as well to squirt you if you doze off. Yes, very good. And I'm glad to see that you love your lives. Many of you came here not because you wanted to, but because I told you you would die if you didn't come. Good. It worked. Threats work. So we don't have as much time. I think we've got 45 minutes. Does anyone know? What does it say on the thing? I've got an hour. All right, let's have some fun. Okay, good. So the title of this workshop is Sharing the Glorious Inheritance. Sharing the Glorious Inheritance and of course, as you might imagine, it has to do something with something to do with evangelizing, which is the sharing of the gospel. Sharing the Glorious Inheritance is sharing that which we have inherited and as Bishop Sam Jacobs so beautifully and articulately put last night, the inheritance is the Son. And so sharing the inheritance is sharing the Son, is sharing Jesus Christ Himself. And that is what we are here about. But before we get to the sharing part, there's something that's very important, that is very key. So the way I'm going to frame this is a dynamism, as I said last night, between communion and mission. I truly believe that the two sides of the church, the two pillars of the church are communion and mission. That without either of these, the church is done. At least the church is not fruitful. You see, the church can't disappear. Jesus promised that the church would always be there, the universal church. He did not make that promise, however, to every particular church, to every diocese, which is why there are dioceses that have died off in history. There are dioceses that have died, that no longer exist. And so that can happen to us. And there are nations that were once Christian that no longer are Christian. I remember when John Paul II went to France and called France la fille aînée de la foi, the first daughter of the faith. But he asked her, the daughter, what have you done with your baptism, friends? Friends that was able to provide so many saints like Thérèse Aflissue, like so many, many, many, many, many great saints and scholars for the church today seem to be going down the drains. And so we must be careful not to think to presume on the grace of Christ to think, well, Jesus said that not even the gates of hell can prevail against the church. Therefore, that means I can just sit back and relax and it'll just happen like everything else happens in my life. I can be passive. I guarantee you if you don't do something, you will disappear. You will not be fruitful. And perhaps your particular community will disappear. One of the purposes this call upon you is one, it's not an option. It is rather a necessity. It's an obligation that is placed upon you. And Saint Paul puts it well as we're going to see later. But in order to get to mission, we need to get to communion. Communion will always lead to mission and true mission will always lead to communion. And communion, I mean it in a specific way. But let's see some examples. Before Christ himself, before going out to do his public ministry, he spent 30 years in the family, in his little community. 30 years he spent there. Can you imagine all that must have entailed? We too are called to be nourished in the Holy Family, in the household of God. And what is the household of God? Saint Paul tells us in 1st Timothy 315, I am writing that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation, or the pillar and bulwark of the truth. This verse of course is a little trick verse. Scott Hunt used that one with some of his former professors back at seminary when he asked them, you know, according to the Bible, what is the pillar and foundation of the truth? And of course all of them said, well the Bible of course is the pillar and foundation of truth. And Scott said, well it seems that Saint Paul thinks differently that the church is the pillar that holds up the Bible, that holds up tradition. And so the church is that body, is that institution, that living institution that is the family of God and we must be nourished in her. And if we want the fullness of the truth, we must come to the church. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 23 tells us that Jesus who is all in all, has his body which is the church and the church is the fullness of Christ. Very, very telling verse. In fact, so much so that I'm going to turn to it because it's so important for us to understand that idea of communion. Ephesians is in the no testament again, for those of you Catholics. It's the last, if you remember the first chapter of Ephesians in the last verse. And he has put in verse 22, and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. So that false dichotomy that some people try to place between the church and Jesus is just that, false. It's a false dichotomy. You can't have the church without Jesus and you can't have Jesus without the church. So you can't say I'm just spiritual, I'm just Christian, I don't belong to any church, well that's stupid. Or it is, we just call it what it is. Because it is false, it is unbiblical. Jesus didn't just come to make people spiritual. Jesus came to make us a family, to make us one with him, his little brothers and sisters in the family of his father who has been at work from the beginning, building himself up a family. Let me give you the quick little summary of the process of salvation history of God wanting to bring us together into his family. If you remember God built, created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. And he wanted to have covenant with them, meaning he wanted to have bond with them. A bond between two strangers that is made by an oath, it's a family bond and it's called covenant. And God swore to be the father of Abraham and Eve, he was their God and they were his creatures. And so in that covenant that God had with them, they broke it of course, but God wanted them to be his sons, his son and daughter. Which is why Adam was made in the image of God and that phrase to be made in the image of is used later on for one of the sons of Adam. And that's how we know that to be made in the image of has to do with sonship. That is why our dignity lies in our being created in the image and likeness of God. Our dignity is not in what we can do or say, which is why the dignity of the smallest human being even at one second old in the womb is still a full human dignity because it doesn't depend on the size on what you do and what you say, how much money you have or whatever else. It depends only on the fact that every single human person is created in the image and likeness of God. So Adam, God wanted him to be his son, his family. Of course we broke that covenant and God didn't just sit back and waited for Adam to come back, but rather God kept pursuing and he offered a new covenant with a new mediator this time growing the family a little bit more and this time instead of just a couple he had a household under Noah. And under Noah God's covenant enlarged and it was growing, but even with Noah and his family there was some fall off. People ran away from God and God kept pursuing man. God kept trying to build his family bigger and bigger and so he offered yet another covenant or a renewal of that covenant under Abraham which at this time it was no longer a household but it became a tribe. So under Abraham the family of God grew to a tribe. But of course after Abraham man who never learns he ceases to follow God and he falls off again so God who never ceases to pursue man he sends yet an invitation to another covenant this time with Moses. And with Moses as a mediator and this covenant now is much bigger because it has to do with a nation. Moses is now leading a nation, the nation of God, the people of God and how wonderful at Mount Sinai God revealed his laws to his children and his laws by the way are the expression of the vulnerability of God. Why do I say that? Yes the laws of God are an expression of his vulnerability and therefore his wanting to fall in love with us for us to fall in love with him. Love is vulnerability that is why Jesus opens himself up to all sorts insults and curses and opens himself up to death on the cross and that is the greatest expression of love. So God in telling us his laws is telling us how we can hurt him. You see man always sinned before the law but man was culpable of the sin after the law because now he knows if he didn't know he's forgiven. If someone does something to you innocently even though it hurts you but it's so easy to forgive that person isn't it? When a child does something to you you just pass it off as he just doesn't know, you know little baby poops on you that's okay but if an adult pooped on you that would be a different story because you know you're not supposed to poop on me. I don't know how that would happen but I suppose it can. So God revealed his laws in order to enter into that vulnerability with us because now that God tells us if you break this you break my heart. The breaking of the law, the breaking of a commandment is not just the breaking of stones it is the breaking of God's heart and he puts himself in harm's way like that and that's love it's an offer of love and of course we worship idols we turn away from God. He didn't turn away though he turned toward us and pursued us even more as the divine hound as what is it called? Hound of Heaven, thank you very much from that wonderful poem from the English guy and so yeah, yeah so God then wanted to renew that covenant with us again and with a new mediator under David this time the family grew bigger as more sort of an empire of a kingdom so that there were other nations that were connected to this family other people would come from different places to come and worship in the temple under David and his son Solomon how wonderful how beautiful and in that kingdom there are many many points that are important the three of the secondary points are my favorite, the three of the secondary points are the presence of the Todor sacrifice which is the sacrifice of thanksgiving, thanking God and it is offered, it's bread and wine that is offered under the Davidic kingdom that sacrifice trumps all the other ones all the other animal sacrifices and everything else they're still present but the Todor sacrifice T-O-D-A-H which is the Hebrew word for thanksgiving the Greek word by the way for that same concept is Eucharistion which means to give thanks, thanksgiving so that sacrifice was the primary sacrifice under the Davidic kingdom which is the the queen mother that's right, the Gabira I see some people who are taking Scott Hans classes very good the Gabira who's the queen mother and as you see in 1 Kings 2 verse 19 the queen mother is the mother of the king and she is the queen in the kingdom while the kings usually were pretty bad boys so Solomon for example had about a thousand wives and concubines combined those poor concubines they must have been like wait you got 700 and you can't add one more you have to keep me in the concubinage state that's just messed up but anyway, 700 and 300 so how do you choose one to become queen? can you imagine the end fighting that would never end in the kingdom 1000 women fighting each other for the seat of the queen so to solve that problem we just make the mother the queen and her presence of course is a sign of legitimacy for the kingdom because she is the wife of the former king so she says yeah this is my son he really is a rightful heir to the throne and so the queen mother we see has a little power in the Davidic kingdom with Solomon well she gets what she wants although with Solomon there was one thing she didn't get because what she asked for wasn't going to be good for the kingdom the third thing this is the role of the Vizier which is the prime minister of the kingdom the Davidic kingdom had 12 ministers and there was one of them that was the lead minister if you will and it's specific in Isaiah 22 that whatever this minister shut in other words decisions he took to tighten stuff no one could open and what he opened no one could shut and he would be called a father to the nation in Jerusalem now how is that fulfilled so God when we ran away under that covenant he decided finally alright no more other mediators I myself will come to lead my people and to tell them how much I love them you know how some guys they like to send notes to girls through their friends to tell them how they like them so God sees to send notes through friends he came himself to tell the girl how much he loves her and so God came and that's why the story of Jesus at the well telling that woman how much how much she met he was actually spiritually spitting game to that girl who had five husbands representing the five different deities of the five different nations that came into contact with Samaria Jesus is saying you fell into idolatry because idolatry the worshiping of other gods is an adulterous relationship with those other gods and therefore the true worship is a marriage relationship with our God family communion is what God wants for us and these three signs I told you are of course fulfilled in the kingdom of Christ in the church which is not just a kingdom but a universal and not just universal being in every nation but it's through time and space through time and space the church is Catholic cost meaning it is everywhere it is for everyone it is universal and it is tended tended or geared towards unity in that communion so the queen mother of course is seen in our blessed lady which is why you see her in Revelation chapter 12 with a crown of stars on her head she's got a crown of stars who has crowns queens do and of course she's bearing a son who is the king to rule all the nations with a scepter and so if he is the king then in that kingdom which he came to restore as the angel Gabriel suggested because Gabriel said Jesus who is the son will sit on the throne of his father David and his kingdom will have no end so Jesus came to restore the kingdom of David according to the promise of the father who told David your kingdom will always be but then David died and his sons died and it looked as if it was over but God is never late no he's never late and he never lies and so the promise of God was fulfilled in his church and that is why in this no-divided kingdom which is now heavenly we have not just a toadah sacrifice with bread and wine but we have bread and wine that is transformed into the body and blood of Christ and not only do we have a regular minister but we have Jesus who had the 12 ministers the apostles picked one of them Peter to be the prime minister and he's the one who got the keys to the kingdom of heaven it's funny people debate about whether Peter is the rock that is in Matthew 16 18 where Peter is not the rock his faith is the rock but why are people debating that when they miss the whole point when Jesus gave him the keys to the kingdom that is a much bigger deal are you kidding me you Peter dude you are so irrational sometimes you say the worst things at the worst times and you giving this guy the keys to the kingdom Jesus are you did you put him through the interview process human resources vouch for him this guy can't lead the church he's got the keys to the kingdom but not any kingdom of heaven look it up it's in the text the kingdom of heaven how does he have such authority because Christ is with him because Christ is the inheritance and Christ wants to make sure that the inheritance is passed down to all generations which is why in Acts 2 verses 30 and 39 when the crowd wants to know what to do to receive salvation Peter tells them to repent and be baptized believe in the gospel repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the Holy Spirit for the promise is for you and for your children and your children's children the promise that is inherited in Christ Jesus is not just for you but it is for those who will believe because of you so to Jesus prayed for the consecration of not only himself which he already consecrated himself to the Father but he prayed for the consecration of the disciples that heard him and for all those he said not only for them but all those that will believe because of their testimony so that's for you and now Jesus is praying for those who will believe because of your testimony so here's a little summary for you of salvation history that what God has been doing where he is today he's got a family and guess what just like the people of Israel were able to keep turning away from God and running away from him so to you can too unless you choose to walk in that glorious inheritance it is a choice of yours but it's a choice where if you say yes there's no GPS person in the world persecuted but happy I love that passage in Mark Saint Mark says you know whoever gives up mother father, brother, sister land for me will receive those a hundred fold mother, father brother, sister land, persecution and eternal life I'm like whoa whoa whoa how do you sneak persecution in there that's a reward yes it is a reward according to Jesus you will be rewarded with persecution so now brothers and sisters this family that God has established which is, oh by the way Isaiah 22 said he would be called a father to all nations that's what the word pope means by the way pope means father which is why in Latin it's papa, Spanish papa, Italian French Creole all meaning the same thing oh by the way why do you call them holy father only God is holy because I'm pretty sure God died to make us holy first Peter chapter something verse something says because the one because the one who calls you is holy so too you must be holy we are holy because God is holy God is not jealous of our holiness people make it a big deal if you call somebody holy then you're taking away from the glory of Christ no you silly when you are holy you glorify Christ and when you recognize the wholeness of somebody you glorify Jesus himself you're saying it worked his death and the resurrection worked because if we have no saints then Jesus his death and resurrection is of no use we must have saints we must be conquered we must have a communion of saints we must be able to communicate with those in heaven we must be one otherwise death is stronger than the death of Christ otherwise the forces of darkness are stronger than the resurrection of Jesus Christ but that can't be because the tomb is empty and Jesus didn't rise and so we rise with him so Jesus spent three years with his disciples the apostles teaching them in community teaching them how to be one to be in communion and by the way part of the teachings of Jesus must have been about human formation by the way we need that so badly and if we have brother priests here I'm sure they'll agree with me completely how the human formation is due to the foundation of all the other pillars that we talked about the four pillars are spiritual formation intellectual formation pastoral formation, human formation the pillars will stand if you're not a real human I don't care how spiritual you are it'll hurt badly you'll make it but it'll hurt so bad you need the human formation you need to take care of the humanity that is in you remember grace came not to destroy the nature that you have but it comes to repair the nature it comes to perfect your human nature and it comes to elevate your human nature perfect and elevate so that your humanity you become the perfect person that you ought to be but now you taste of the divinity of God himself because of Christ and now that your humanity has been elevated grace builds upon nature so your humanity must be healthy take care of yourself that means sleep so you're a counselor and do all these things that are important that's not what my talk is about somebody here tonight somebody needs to hear this right now you need to take care of yourself because your humanity is beautiful and it needs to be glorified the disciples and Mary they were in communion waiting for the Holy Spirit to come like we are waiting together in the upper room this retreat is amazing it falls in this weekend where we are waiting for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit so what I'm trying to show you is how the communion in order to go into that mission communion leads to mission in John 13 verse 30 40 35 that's one of the places where we see how true community evangelizes by life and words there's probably a phrase you must have heard a thousand times in your life it's okay to strike it away from your vocabulary from your repertoire of phrases it says evangelize preach the gospel at all times use words when necessary it's cute isn't it but it's misleading on a couple different fronts it's misleading because who said that? exactly he didn't there's no evidence that Francis ever said that I'm sorry to bust your bubble but there's no evidence Francis ever said that again it's cute it does express some truth which is that our lives ought to evangelize ought to preach with and our words but it's misleading in that some people might think well I guess I could just not say anything and I'm good no read the book of Acts again and find out underline how many times do this exercise how many times do you see the word proclaim okay underline every time you see proclaiming acts just acts alone and tell me what you think about preach the gospel at all times use words when necessary which are almost always necessary almost always so we shouldn't take that as an excuse to not proclaim Jesus Christ now in John 13 a new commandment Jesus says I give to you that you love one another even as I have loved you that you also love one another by this all men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another so loving for one another in communion is how the world will know that we are disciples of Jesus Christ that's what a disciple is is the one who loves his brother in John 17 four chapters later verses 20 to 23 I do not pray for these only but also for those who believe in me through their word that they may also be one even as thou father art in me and I in thee also may be in us so that the world may believe that thou has sent me how would the world believe if we are one in communion the glory which thou has given me I have given to them so Jesus shares his inheritance with us that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me and they that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know that thou has sent me to them even as thou has loved me that communion that union in communion is not just optional and that is why I guarantee you if you are in a parish for example where there is no unity you'll probably find that your evangelization excuse my language sucks probably doesn't happen you're probably not getting new followers in your parish why? you're not one and you're not loving one another Jesus is present in the liturgy in many different ways he's present in the priest he's present in the word he's present in the eucharist he's present in the assembly but all these presences of Jesus presuppose faith from people you need to have faith in order to see Jesus present there however there is a presence of Jesus that gives faith in the community when there is community that is loving it is proof that there is something bigger than those people there because it's really hard for humans to live with each other it's really difficult for a group of people to be in love with one another and to serve one another in unity for a long period of time so when you do it, when you succeed at it with the power of Christ the world knows then the world comes to believe another that is the communion that is the basis for true mission and it acts too so those who received his word were baptized and they were added that day they were added that day about 3,000 souls and they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship to the breaking of bread and the prayers there's a forming of the first christian community there and the four pillars of community so I say communion has four pillars which leads to mission which has two pillars in communion we have those four pillars laid out in Acts 2, 41 to 42 specifically verse 42 which is the apostles teaching so the word fellowship the breaking of bread which is the Eucharist and the prayers these are the four pillars if you want to be a thriving community if you do these four things well then you will be good and that will necessarily lead to your mission, your evangelizing and in Acts 4 one last passage in Acts 4 verses 32 and 35 now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul that describes how they were living in those four pillars of one heart and soul and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own but they had everything in common and with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all there was not a needy person among them for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles feet and distribution was made to each as any had need now you're probably hearing this and thinking wow that was nice it would never be possible today but it's the same spirit that was there then is it not present today I believe I truly do believe any community that would dare do this that would dare do this would transform the world so you wonder how did the early Christians do it how did they grow so fast when there was such persecution and oppression and resistance because of this you can't resist love like that you can't resist you simply cannot resist it when we are detached from material things and attached to Christ and one another we can do wonders because then we're afraid of nothing we're afraid of losing nothing because there's nothing to lose you're not even afraid of losing your life because you know to die is to is a gain in Christ death is a gain for you you're suffering you're suffering you see you can't go to the temple in Jerusalem because we don't have that temple we have the temple of Christ your suffering becomes a possibility for you to offer a sacrifice on to the Lord your suffering your pain becomes redemptive gifts when you are living this reality I would challenge I dare any group of people to live like this to sell everything they have and to put it together and say nothing is his own this is very different from communism you know what the difference is exactly communism is a forced thing so communism sees the beauty in this and they try to get this but what they're wrong means only the Holy Spirit can bring this about only the Holy Spirit it's the same thing as Babel the difference between Babel and Pentecost is that Babel they were trying to do it alone and for themselves because it's the Holy Spirit doing it with them and for the sake of God for the glory of God when Jesus is involved when the Holy Spirit is involved then it becomes heavenly otherwise it's become it becomes hellish now we see Mary as our first missionary the Gospel is announced to her at the Annunciation went to the Holy Land twice and both times I was able to visit Nazareth and the exact grotto where the Blessed Mother was praying and when the angel Gabriel came to speak to her to announce to her the Gospel she received the Gospel she was announced the Gospel of Jesus Christ we're going again in February of next year my bishop and I is so fun we're leading a group of people to the Holy Land you can find out more information on our website ask me for my website later because if you ask me I have to answer the question but I probably shouldn't say it myself so just ask me later make sure that's one of the questions after Mary receives the Gospel what does she do she runs in haste by the way Nazareth to Judea is very very far she ran there to go to her relative Elizabeth and here's the beauty of it reread Luke chapter one or two the beginning of Luke that interaction between Elizabeth and Mary is so powerful the visitation her voice alone gives the Holy Spirit her greeting makes people dance in the power of the Holy Spirit reminiscent of the King David himself dancing in the presence of the Ark of the Covenant because she is of course the Ark of the New Covenant so the baby dances at the greeting at the sound of her voice Elizabeth said she was filled with the Holy Spirit because Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit and was carrying the inheritance to share the good news now we in case this is not yet clear all of the Scripture the New Testament we are told of that duty that we have and so I'm just going to shoot them out to you real quick some passages that make you feel bad if you don't evangelize give you a guilt trip Matthew 28 19 20 go therefore and make what yeah exactly what is a disciple not just make a believer make a disciple a follower of Jesus that takes time that takes investment how many of you went to the discipleship quad workshop raise your hand only a few of you oh my goodness okay well then something will be repeated for the rest of you bad I have to bring you up to date okay I have to bring you up to date disciple is a follower and it takes investment of time and energy into that person like Jesus did for his own disciples he says to make disciples of all nations spend 2,000 years people half more over half of the world still not disciples what the heck are we doing it is incumbent upon our generation to fulfill the great commission we can't wait anymore we can't leave it to the next people to do it we can't leave it to the professionals the priests and the bishops and the nuns every single one of you is called baptizing them in the name of the father and the son of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and lo I am with you always to the close of the age Saint Paul in 1st Corinthians 916 preach the gospel that gives me no ground for boasting for necessity is laid upon me woe to me if I do not preach the gospel I am cursed if I don't preach the gospel so are you preaching the gospel is a necessity Saint Paul says in Acts 1.8 Jesus tells us how far we should go in preaching the gospel but you shall receive power tomorrow and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth so Jerusalem was the center and then further out to Judea and then to Samaria and then to the end of the world as we saw in the first reading today Saint Paul went to the end of the earth to Rome to be able to proclaim the gospel to everybody even to the Jews while he was in prison power you will receive that power you know the Bible is so clear and unfortunately our popes are just not that clear or are they in Mission of the Redeemer Saint John Paul II whom I love so dearly so should you he says in number one of Redemptorist Mecio or Mission of the Redeemer you can find it for free online on the Vatican website Mission of the Redeemer John Paul II the Mission of Christ the Redeemer are from completion as the second millennium after Christ's coming draws to an end an overall view of the human race shows that this mission is still only beginning and that we must commit ourselves wholeheartedly to its service it is the spirit who impels us to proclaim the great works of God for if I preach the gospel that gives me no ground for boasting for necessities laid upon me well to me if I did not preach the gospel John Paul II says we're just beginning my friends we have just begun the work that was back in 2000 a little before 2000 and now we're in 2019 and we're still just beginning he says in the name of the whole church I sense an urgent duty to repeat this cry of Saint Paul from the beginning of my pontificate I have chosen to travel to the ends of the earth in order to show this mystery concern my direct contact with peoples for Christ has convinced me even more of the urgency of missionary activity a subject to which I am devoting the present encyclical but what moves me even more strongly to proclaim the urgency of missionary evangelization is the fact that it is the primary service which the church can render to every individual and to all humanity in the modern world a world which has experienced achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself Christ the Redeemer fully reveals man to himself the person who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must draw near to Christ the primary service that the church can render the world my dear brothers and sisters is missionary evangelization so as church our primary service is not CRS or Food for the Poor as great as those are I benefit from Food for the Poor it is not the building of homes as great as those are people need those if anybody wants to build some homes in my village you are welcome to contact me but it is not the primary service that the church can do as important as they are primary service is missionary evangelization because that will save souls the number of those who do not know Christ and do not belong to the church is constantly on the increase indeed since the end of the council it has almost doubled when we consider this immense portion of humanity which is loved by the father and for whom he sent his son the urgency of the church's mission is obvious and by the way interreligious dialogue doesn't eliminate that urgency because the Holy Father reiterates the fact that there is salvation in one name only Jesus Christ people might be saved without belief in Jesus if they are invincibly ignorant of Jesus but they are not saved because of the ignorance they are saved because of Christ of whom they are ignorant however the most certain way that we know is to put them Christ to them so that they will know yes that is very Catholic what I am telling you trust me I have my Catholic card in my pocket I could show it to you later the Holy Father 6 was just as clear he said those who have received the good news and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it so if you come into communion with Christ with one another you can and you must share that inheritance you must evangelize that is in Zion D 13 in 14 he says we wish to confirm once more that the task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the church the essential mission of the church is the task of evangelizing all people today it is a task and mission which the vast and profound with which the vast and profound changes of present day society make all the more urgent evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the church her deepest identity she exists in order to evangelize not my words the pope's words she exists in order to evangelize that is to say in order to preach and teach to be the channel of the gift of grace to reconcile sinners with God and to perpetuate Christ's sacrifice in the mass which is the memorial of his death and glorious resurrection and one final passage from our current Holy Father endure the gospel number 120 my favorite paragraph in that whole document so listen up I read the whole paragraph too in virtue of their baptism all the members of the people of God how many thank you have become missionary disciples I love that phrase all of you how many people baptize here raise your hands please any baptize person here oh look at that every single one of you by virtue of your baptism is a missionary disciple all the baptize whatever their position in the church or their level of instruction in the faith are agents of evangelization and it would be insufficient to envisage a plan of evangelization to be carried out by professionals while the rest of the faithful would simply be passive recipients the new evangelization calls for personal involvement on the part of each of the baptize every Christian is challenged here and now not tomorrow not there but here and now to be actively engaged in evangelization indeed anyone who has truly experienced God saving love does not need much time or lengthy training to go out and proclaim that love every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus we no longer say that we are disciples and missionaries but rather that we are always missionary disciples if that doesn't put some fire under your bum I don't know what will let the fire let the fire burn let it burn for every single one of you and now some of you of course rightly will say well how the heck do I evangelize father I would like to but I'm timid I'm Catholic I don't do the whole door to door thing I don't go out on the street with a bull horn and say you're going to hell if you don't repent how do I do it father well there are many good ways to do it first of all remember get yourself in communal life parish is probably your most local community your parish life if you don't like it well then do something about it offer yourself to create certain small groups of course which can never be a parallel church which must always bring to feed into the parish and feed from the parish life around the Eucharist make sure you're living out the four pillars of communion of the word the Eucharist fellowship in the prayers so as a group as a small group whatever group you're part of you got to have some kind of small group you can't just go to mass on Sunday for one hour or I'm sorry 50 minutes rush back home and call yourself as part of a local community that is just silly that's not community there was a sect in Boston that challenged me with that they lived together several families together in one house they worked together they had a business together they taught the same thing they really were of one heart in mind unfortunately they were wrong because they had stupid doctrines but they at least understood the idea of community and I tell them well we have community too oh right when people go to mass and they go home they don't know their brother's name they don't know who's sitting next to them they don't know what you're going through sitting there they will not notice if you don't come to mass no one will notice is that community is that really what will tell the world wow look how they love one another I don't think so well do something about it you find a way to love you find a way to serve but don't do it alone make sure you do it together and that's the key of it so get yourself together I don't know if you have to start some kind of new movement no group but get in communion get in community around the Eucharist the word fellowship and the prayers fellowship is important having fun with one another in my community in my my rectory I ask Bishop permission to have a little lay community with me at the rectory we pray together we eat together in every Sunday night we have community night we get cold beers cold coke and other stuff and we drink and eat supper and we sing we love one another and we share our cross and joys over the week each person has to go around my cross was my joy was and then we hear that we pray for one another and we play a couple of games and we go to bed it's amazing you have no idea the grace that we receive from that every single week and I'm so blessed by it because I'm a priest I'm married to the church so when I have a little portion of the church with me for me to love like that it blesses me greatly so get yourself in community and that is the discipleship quads is one of the ways to do that I highly highly highly highly recommend it you can look it up on the Stubenville website if you look up Stubenville discipleship quads Stubenville discipleship quads just look that up on Google and it'll bring everything up the basic idea is this is that you get yourself together with three other people and Stubenville is actually providing free content there is a content the idea is that together you learn to be disciples of Jesus Christ in community you meet once a week for about a year around ish right once a week that's it four people that's so easy pick one place to meet together over coffee or whatever and it's not just you're not just teaching a Bible study it's not what it is it's discipleship and fellowship you are learning together from the Lord in his scriptures in the Catechism you're learning you're eating together and you're leading one another and the nice thing is you will start out as the facilitator but then about three months into it you pass on the leadership guide to the next person in the group so they lead for three months so they get a taste of it and then they pass it on to the next person by the end of the year each one in the group has already led the small group and each one needs to commit when the year ends and you will start a new group so now you have four people now going to start four different quads and so that multiplies in order for you to know what that looks like it's the idea called spiritual multiplication and Walter Henriksen in disciples are made not born suggests a hypothetical situation that clearly illustrates the process of multiplication suppose a father offers his two sons the choice of taking one dollar a week for 52 weeks or one cent the first week in an amount each week for the next 51 51 weeks that is double the previous weeks amount which one would you choose so one dollar every week or one cent the first week which doubles itself every week the one cent do you know why you would choose that yeah okay so the first choice at the end of the year you'd have how much money 52 dollars the second choice is called exponential growth and you would get on the 52nd week not all the weeks put together but only on the 52nd week alone you would have 22 trillion 517 billion 998 million 136 thousand 852 dollars and 48 cents one cent just being multiplied that is multiplication and not addition another example suppose you start with a checker board of 64 squares on the first square you place one grain of wheat on the second square you place two grains on the third square you place four grains how much wheat would you have to place on the last square if you continue doubling each succeeding square it would take enough wheat to cover India to a depth of 50 feet that is the power of multiplication see what we try to do so often is addition it doesn't work it doesn't work so suppose you're a great evangelist and you lead one thousand people to faith in Christ every day one thousand people you're on fire and at the end of the first year there would be 365 thousand new believers that's great that's the principle of addition one thousand added every single day suppose another person though in one year led one person to Jesus and spent that year building his faith teaching God's truth taking him to mass training that individual to grow to maturity and to spiritually reproduce himself in someone else at the end of the first year there would be two disciple makers and set of 365 thousand believers but if you keep going the disciples make us keep investing one more person every year the number is simply multiply and at the end of ten years there are 1024 disciple makers and at the end of 25 years there would be 33 million 554 thousand 432 disciple makers but at the end of 25 years if you multiply you only get how many 365 thousand a lot that's 9,125,000 so if you get 1,000 people every day after 25 years you get 9 million people 1,000 every day you see how much you have to work 1,000 every day you get 9 million people after 35 years but you make one disciple a year who reproduces himself who understands the fact that I can't sit on my butt and not proclaim and share the inheritance I must share what I have received in 25 years you will end up with 33.5 million yeah that's about 4 times as much as 1,000 every day but it takes patience it takes long vision it takes knowledge which you have received today but if you use the quads if you use the quads the discipleship quads one year you know in the beginning of the one year there's just you and at the end there's 4 people there's 4 no disciples in 10 years with the quads there's 262,144 disciples that's the quads see the one disciple took 25 years to get 33 million but with the quads though provided that of course it's ideal of course but we need to go for the ideal in 25 years with the quads or in 20 years in 20 years if the quads are done well 274 billion 877 million 906,944 no disciples not just believers no disciples oh just so you know we don't have that many people on earth so is it possible to evangelize the whole world yes Jesus was not lying when he told us go to the whole world and make disciples of all nations so Pope Francis said once you've encountered the love of God you can't help but to share it with others you don't need that much lengthy training and go so share the glorious inheritance because it'll save our church amen