Fr Ted points outs that Jesus’ appointing of the seventy[-two]* disciples in today’s gospel was only the beginning. We, too, have been sent to prepare the way for Jesus – wherever we live and with whomever we meet.
*Some Alexandrian and Caesarean text types have “seventy,” while other Alexandrian texts and Western readings have “seventy-two.”
Thus says the Lord… As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.
IS 66:10-14C
Brothers and sisters: May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
GAL 6:14-18
At that time the Lord appointed seventy[-two] others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.
LK 10:1-12, 17-20