Remembering and Mission
Do you remember? Your first day at school? Your first teacher? Do you remember - the first time you rode a bicycle, the day you learned to swim? Do you remember your first day at work? Do you remember your wedding day? Do you remember your Baptism? - we are remembering who we belong to.
Next Sunday 8 of our young people are being confirmed. Do you remember your own confirmation? The day of taking for ourselves the promises of Baptism Bishop of Aston – St Lawrence’s Northfield. ‘You did not choose me, I chose you and appointed you.’
2nd half of our Gospel reading – ‘In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.’ As we were thinking through the commandments the other night we ended up with thinking of what it meant to be a follower of Christ
Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
That is our mission in the world – to be the hands, the feet, the eyes of Christ – wherever you choose to live, in whatever family you establish for yourself, in whatever work you choose to do.