
MISSION AND OBEDIENCE
Reading Time: 2 minutes Introduction Last Sunday Gospel reading ended with the discerning of disciples and the cost of discipleship (cf. Luke 9:57–62). In this Sunday reading, Jesus makes seventy-two of his disciples experience the pros and cons of discipleship and of proclaiming the Gospel. Though not indicated, but these seventy-two disciples must have understood better Jesus’ words that “foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Luke 9:58). They must have also learnt…