together... Mk 6.7-13 15. Sun B

As many times we see Jesus as a teacher... He shows us HOW to work.
In the GOSPEL of today there is a clear missionary-strategy. May the CHURCH of our time learn from this Jesus-advice; example!

1. Call the missionaries together (all twelve Apostles means today: the whole CHURCH or at least all the Bishops. It's today named a Council or a Synod
cf. Oct 2015). Mk don't reveal the discussions among the Apostles - doesn't
matter - but without Synod, without "together" there is no sending!

2. Jesus sends them out in pairs. It means don't do missionary-work alone!
a) Don't pray alone! To pray - go to your Christian Community (go to CHURCH). If you stay at home  for your prayer, at least call together "in your mind" all the Community. Feel connected. To pray means to accept God as Creator (as the Father of all mankind) and therefore we stand before God as one, as united; at least not alone!
b) Preach in pairs. It sounds strange. It's not you, it's the message who counts. And the message is so rich... like the orchestra: the different instruments all together translate the message.
c) Treat the unclean spirits in pairs. "Unclean spirits" means a wrong thinking, a wrong feeling, a wrong acting. An unclean spirit is out of reality. The man is occupied by strange imagination. Maybe he sees himself as "center of the world" (cf. narcissism etc...). In the eyes of Jesus not one work should be done alone. Act as connected as possible. Together you discover the right thinking.

3.The first step in missionary-work is always to invite for "metanoia". This famous "repentance" is the acceptance: my thinking is not at the end, is not a rock, it's changeable. As soon as we agree: change is possible... we go together on the way. We like to find out - together - which thinking is better, more just, more full of mercy, more lovely.

The human "togetherness" became a strong impetus on the 18.06.2015 as Pope Francis published his encyclical letter to all of us, to everybody- named:
"Laudato si..." (praise to you Lord). The Pope calls us to widen our sight (vision). As family we live together in our EGUMBO; as Nation we live together
in Namibia (cf. Gage Geingob). But the Pope invites us to see the whole earth
as one EGUMBO for all of us, for the whole mankind. And together we care for this common EGUMBO. It's an eye-opener to look around and to have in mind: Yes this rotating earth is our common EGUMBO.