--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/12/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/12/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/07/12/daily-readings-reflection-for-71209#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 7/12/09 Jul 12, 2009 8:00:26 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 7/12/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: 15th Sun.B. Amos 7:12-15. Psalm 85:9-10.11-12.13-14. Ephesians 1:3-14. Mark 6:7-13. Lectionary # 105: Sunday is the Lord's day and our Eucharistic celebrations and the readings are meant to help us enter into the mystery of Christ's redemptive action, especially the Eucharist.  We have an example from the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation (never Revelations with an "s") that has the words of John, the seer from Patmos who says,"On the Lord's day I was caught up in ecstasy, and I heard behind me a piercing voice like the sound of a trumpet which said, "Write on a scroll what you now see and send it to the seven churches..." Sunday is the first day of the week in the Hebrew way of reckoning days. Monday is simply called the second day.  Sunday is always associated with Christ's Resurrection and is for Christians the beginning of a new creation in the order of the redeeming events of Jesus Christ's life.  It is central to our lives of worship, service, and mission. The first mission oriented people for the Christians were the apostles and Jesus made sure there were twelve of them representing the 12 tribes of Israel. This continued even after his death to keep the number of apostles at 12.  Paul, of course, is an apostle but in the sense of someone who has experienced Christ as Christians today do, that is, through believing he is alive because of his resurrection. It is always celebrated on a Sunday or the anticipation of a Sunday the evening before.  Here it is that we hear what it means to be a disciple of the Lord and also how we are to be apostles.  Like the twelve original ones we are to bring healing, peace, and Jesus' redeeming love to others through our actions and sometimes through our words.  The Eucharist and the liturgical readings are specially chosen on Sundays to make us enter into our being summoned by Jesus to be his followers. There we are nourished by both the word and the sacrament of Jesus' presence in the elements of Bread and Wine.  In fact, we believe that each Eucharistic celebration is based on what happens in our Sunday celebrations of word and sacrament thus we sometimes have an opportunity of participating in the Eucharist during the week. Some even do this on a daily basis because of their situation.  But for most people Sunday is the only day that they can actually participate in the Paschal Mysteries of the Mass, namely, Jesus' suffering, death, and resurrection.  We all need the word of God in our spiritual life of union with Christ and the sacrament of the Eucharist is the primary way in which we participate in the life of Christ.  It is good that we have both word and sacrament in our Eucharistic celebrations. We are sent at the end of the Mass and therefore are to be today's apostles. An apostle is one who is sent to bring about what Mark is telling us in today's Gospel. We are to expel evil, anoint those who are sick, and cure those who need curing. Blessed William Joseph Chaminade who was one of the first to be beatified in the twenty-first century loved to tell his followers "You are all missionaries."  We are all summoned to be apostles today who bring the positive approach of the Good News to others. This is in harmony with one of the earliest narratives about apostleship in the Gospel of Mark wherein Jesus commissions his twelve disciples to become missionary apostles who do get rid of evil, heal people, and anoint others.  Sundays remind us that we are also being summoned by Jesus to do what the original twelve did.  We realize that Jesus has no other laborers for the harvest than ourselves. We truly are all missionaries of the Lord. 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