Reading this very difficult text - one is clear: Jesus sent his disciples into the world;
it means: they have to live really in the world showing how much they love the world.
Baptised people must know: the world is our place to live and to proclaim the
Good News. This Good News is not extracted from the world - but discovered by meditating the Mystery of God and by observing Jesus. And this Good News is exactly the best bread and wine for the existing world.
The actual world-situation, the view of the past and the vision for the future - these are the target of our Christian message. These are the soil or the rock for our seed.
Baptised people are situatd between the soil and the seed (the world and the word).
They need each other. They must be brought together.The Universe, the mother "earth" has given birth to the "homo sapiens" and now humanity has to receive the word of God in order to dance into joy to the full.
Who brings together world and word
Who unites God and universe
Who melts sin into love
Who flames wood with matches
the one between...
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