+ We celebrated yesterday a feast of St. Paul – when we recalled how he was converted to the faith of Christ and then sent on his way to work tirelessly for Jesus and the Christian Way of Life. Today we celebrate the feast of two of Paul's right hand men: Timothy and Titus. Both of these holy men were chosen by Paul to accompany him on his missionary journeys and to be special instruments of God, along with Paul, in establishing the early Christian communities. It was not an easy thing, setting up these communities. And both Timothy and Titus were equal to the task, by the grace of God, to handle delicate matters of faith formation in the churches of Thessalonica, Philippi, Corinth and Ephesus. Eventually, both Timothy and Titus became bishops: Timothy of Ephesus, and Titus of Crete.
The first reading today tells of Paul encouraging Timothy to stir into flame the gift of God he had received for the sake of the churches – the gifts of his ordination as bishop. In the hierarchy we find the sure presence of the Spirit of God for the sake of upbuilding the kingdom, the same Spirit that is found in all the members of the Body of Christ which is the Church. May we each today accept the role God has given us in his Body so that the Kingdom of God may be built even more today than yesterday, and so that we ourselves may be holier today than we were yesterday!
God has indeed come to save us from all we need saving from! Let us go forth from this Mass to proclaim this marvelous deed of God to all the nations – beginning with the people we see right here in our own midst!
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