To go for Jesus, with Jesus, around the world.

Do you know that repetition helps in many, many ways? Through repetition, we learn, become more skilled, and much more confident… Again and again, Jesus advises us: “Go into all the world…” (Mk 16:15).

Why? What for? Jesus wants us to spread his teaching, name…, and resurrection worldwide. Jesus rebukes unbelief and hardness of heart. From these words of Jesus, we can feel instruction and encouragement for us in our struggles for a deeper faith, for a stronger attachment to Christ.

An excerpt of the Gospel from Mark’s supplement, where he recapitulates the appearance of the Lord Jesus after his resurrection; first to Mary Magdalene, to the two Emmaus disciples, and finally to the eleven apostles at the table. After his resurrection, he must start over with his disciples. All the enthusiasm, the zeal of the three years they spent with Jesus seems to have evaporated. However, Jesus continues and frees his apostles from sadness and hopelessness, and even here, we encounter real unbelief, the hardness of the apostles’ hearts, because they did not believe those who saw the resurrected Christ. Jesus approaches the apostles again and awakens faith in them, in this small group of people, because he knows that they will soon become the foundation of the future Church. Even this doubt of theirs will serve many to accept the faith and teachings of Christ. That is why Jesus seems to be working again to awaken the shaken faith of his apostles. Mark uses the words “to all creation” in the Gospel. We can say that this designation is a missionary terminology used for Christians from paganism, where we understand that all people, the whole creation meets the preaching of the Gospel and be transformed for us.

The Gospel is a kind of struggle of Jesus for Peter, John, and Thomas,… “Eleven”, but it is also a struggle for us. After all, we have not seen Jesus; we have not touched his pierced hands and side, and yet we believe. Why? Because Jesus addressed us, wrestled with us as with his first apostles. And so he also invites us to follow him, bear witness and proudly multiply the ranks of those who believed in one, universal apostolic Church from the beginning. Because whoever believes in Christ must persevere with him, he must try to get rid of doubts and cowardice because this is what Christ wants us to be. Christ wants us to be spirited and joyful heralds of the good news. This is our task. Everyone who has accepted baptism also accepts this task. Who he wants to accomplish this task, he must believe and not doubt. Jesus rebukes unbelief.

From the life of St. We know the teachings of Francis of Assisi. Once he invited one of his fellow brothers, who was a well-known and famous preacher, to preach. From the morning, this brother and František walked the city streets. In the evening, he impatiently asked František when he would preach. Then Francis said to him seriously: “My brother, since the morning you have been preaching to those with whom we meet.”

We should set an example in our own life and our family.