Jesus commissions 72 disciples in today’s gospel. Like the 72, Fr Tony points out, Jesus commissions us to bring God’s peace, faith and healing to ourselves and to all that we meet on our journey to the kingdom.
[Ezra] read out of the book [of the law of Moses] from daybreak until midday, in the presence of the men, the women, and those children old enough to understand.
NEH 8:1-4A, 5-6, 7B-12
Jesus appointed seventy-two other disciples whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.
LK 10:1-12