The Call to Discipleship
Reflection at Mass Memoria of Sts. Timothy and Titus 2 Timothy 1:1-8; Ps 95:1-5; Luke 10:1-9 By Joshua Mege The Apostles were disciple of Jesus. After Jesus the Apostles too had their own disciples. These disciples not only learned from the apostles the truth of Jesus, they also helped the apostles with the mission of spreading the Good News. Today the Church honours Sts. Timothy and Titus, direct and immediate fruit of St. Paul’s conversion. In a sense, therefore, today’s memoria continues yesterday’s momentum . We not only celebrated the life of a saint, but also an event in salvation history in which Christ the Lord inaugurated the massive mission that would graft all nations onto the election of Israel. The Gentile mission was set in motion as God poured out his elective grace indiscriminately upon the world. Timothy and Titus are living expressions of that grace. Each became a co-worker with Paul, an apostolic delegate, bearing the full power of the Gospel.