God's Call

As we celebrate the feast of the two apostles, Simon Zealot and Jude, it reminds us that we too have been called, called above all to holiness, which entails the work of evangelization as it did for the Twelve and those who followed in their footsteps.  We don't have a clear picture of these apostles from the New Testament and writers who chronicled the early church, but evidently they brought the word of God to as far west as Lybiya and other countries bordering the Meditarranean and eventually suffered martyrdom.  Of course, when Jesus first called them, they had no idea what was in store for them, but taking it one day at a time, it all became clearer and grace made it possible to live out their call to the end.
So too with us; our call first came at Baptism then became clearer as we matured into adulthood and listened to the subsequent calls that have led us to where we are, in most cases, far afield from what we imagined as children or teenagers.  If we have continued to answer each call faithfully, we have been growing in holiness, even though we don't perceive it. By being living witnesses of the Gospel, we have even been evangelizing.   May we trust that having been called, we will be given the grace to fulfill that call.  May we help one another by our prayers and example to help bring our call to fruition.
Bro. Rene