Herald of the Evangelizer

(An excerpt from the “Herald of the Evangelizer” by Rev. Jaime Bonet)

“Because I want to bring good news to the afflicted, to soothe the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and release to those in prison…" (Is 61, 2-2).
So that the “blind see again, and the lame walk, those suffering from virulent skin diseases are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead may be raised to life and the good news be proclaimed to the poor…”(Mt 1, 4-6)

Because I long to change hate into love, sadness into joy, anguish and despair into optimism and hope, sickness and death into life and resurrection...

Because I want to give direction and meaning to so many paralyzed lives that are bored and lethargic, full of doubts and suspicion, empty and broken by disabling complexes.

Because I see the urgent need for the Gospel to reach the ends of the earth; to break the chains of those who are enslaved, crushed and oppressed by the lack of culture, faith, food and shelter…

I feel a passion to give the Gospel, alive and raw, to restless and rebellious young people who, dissatisfied and unconforming, protest against everything. I want to give them the sword of the Truth as their defense and armor. And to those of them who renounce to life, I want to shout with the powerful voice of the Gospel: “Get up and live!”…

I can’t stop proclaiming the Good News of liberation in order to save the lives of millions of children whose lives I see are broken and disintegrated as soon as they open their eyes to the light or even while in their mother’s womb. I am compelled to announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Peace and of justice, Kingdom of life and love, to stop the relentless wars between nations and races, and the painful conflicts between children and parents…

That’s why I can say, without fear of being pretentious or of it being an abstract or unreasonable theory, that evangelizing is for me a duty and a right, a joy and now an irreversible dedication, impossible for me to leave; it as impossible to leave as it for me to renounce to living or to the fact that my brothers and sisters can have life to the full through me…

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