During the house blessings in one area of our parish, I came across a person very hospitable and kind. I also noticed her strong religiosity, therefore pushed by the instinct to look for new active parishioners who can help in our mission, in our work of evangelization, I invited her to commit herself. Her answer was: “Sorry father I am the kind of person who enjoys staying at home.” There are these kinds of persons and I do not blame them. I am just wondering, what about our God, our Triune God? It is not completely correct to compare Him, the Almighty to a human person, but because we are done in the likeness of God: Is He a God who enjoys staying in Heaven or …?

Neither God the Father, nor God the Son, nor the Holy Spirit is a quite “God”. God the Father created the whole universe and us out of an act of love. He is the God of Abraham and Moses, and He followed them on their journey from one land to another. The Holy Spirit has been there since the beginning taking part in the creation and we found Him last Pentecost Sunday, as a strong wind making the scared disciples courageous witnesses of the Resurrected One and His Kingdom. The same for the Son. The latter was sent to become one of us and during his life, especially his public ministry, he went around the whole of Palestine, on foot, encountering people, listening, healing, teaching, and encouraging.

Now the same God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit tells us: “Go!”. Maybe we are not called to go to “all the nations”, but we are sent to “make disciples”. What does it mean and how? We talk a lot, at least within our parishes, about synodality. The synodal path is asking us, the Church, to journey together, to encounter, to listen and to dialogue with all, moving “away

from the self-referentiality of the ego of its own self-preservation towards the service of building an inclusive “us” towards the whole human family and of the entire creation”. (Final document of the Youth Synod n.125). Encountering others is already a step in “making disciples.” We tell them about Jesus, the Person who moves our hearts, minds, and feelings and gives direction to our lives. The roads, the shops, the factories, the offices, the construction sites are the places where we meet the others and witness the Resurrected One. We know through the Gospels that He did it and we intend to continue His mission to all the people, knowing the desire of the Triune God, of encountering all men and women. Moreover, for us disciples of Jesus in Asia, being Church entails, what our bishops called the triple dialogue:

1. with the different cultures,

2. the people of other religions,

3. and the poor.

The God the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit is preparing the way and expecting us to build up His Kingdom. Let us move!