5th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
1st Reading : Isaiah 6.1-8
Psalm 137
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 15.1-11
Gospel: Luke 5.1-11
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-The rabbit is is poised at the ready. Ears pointed backwards to allow greater flight.
-He has an idea where he will be going because he looks in the cross-hairs... but then everything really depends on the power of the catapult, and whether he will finish up before, after or on the target.
-He has a helmet sporting a star. It is the light which is sent during the night.
-The catapult resembles a Formula 1 car with bigger wheels at the back
-The release system is two-fold. The rabbit is held back by two ropes. We might expect to see only one. The signification is that, in the Church, when somebody is sent on a mission, two things are required ; that the person has an inner call (coming from themselves) and that the same call is confirmed by the Church who chooses to send them. We are not sent just because we feel we should be.
-There is no decor, because when God sends us, we let go of all else.
-This image could represent Jesus, sent by the Father, to love and save us.
Questions
-When I am sent.
-Do I attribute my mission as coming from myself ?
-Do I realise my mission ?
-Must I be told 36 times that I am going in the right direction, and be kicked up the behind several times ?
-Have I ever been disappointed by a mission ? Was I given the mission or did it come from myself?
