Evangelizo

Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them: "Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents (with their hands), and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.)

All members of the Body of Christ should follow their leader and head who ascended today. He has gone before us to prepare a place for us (Jn 14,2), for us who follow him, that we may say along with the betrothed of the Song of Songs: «Draw me after you» (1,4)... Do we want to follow him? We should consider, too, the way he showed us during thirty-three years: a way of poverty, of stripping, that was sometimes very bitter. We are to follow exactly the same path if we want to go with him up above all the heavens. Even if all teachers were to be dead and all books burned we should always find sufficient teaching in his holy life, for he himself and no other is the way (Jn 14,6). Let us follow him,then. Just as a magnet draws iron so our beloved Christ draws to himself every heart he has touched. The iron that is touched by the force of the magnet is raised above its natural condition, it rises up as it follows it however contrary that might be to its nature. It no longer has any rest until it has been lifted up above itself. In the same way everyone touched in the depths of their heart by Christ no longer retains either joy or suffering. They are lifted up above themselves to him... When we are not touched then we shouldn't blame God. God touches, pushes, warns and desires everyone one equally. He wants everyone in the same way but his action, his warning and his gifts are received in very different ways... We love and seek other things besides him and that is why the gifts God is always offering to each one of us sometimes remain unused... We cannot move out of this state of soul except with a courageous and determined zeal and a prayer that is genuine, interior and persevering.

Sermon 20, 3rd for the Ascension

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 16:15-20.