When Jesus appears to the disciples on the evening of his resurrection he says, "As the Father has sent me, so I also send you." Just as the people who saw Jesus saw the Father who sent him, whoever sees us is to see Jesus who sent us.
We are to re-present Jesus to our world. To do this we need help.
So immediately after Jesus says, "As the Father has sent me, so I also send you," today's Gospel says '....he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."' When God formed man out of earth God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and brought into existence a human being in God's own image and likeness. Now the Risen Jesus breathes his own Holy Spirit into us and makes us in his own image and likeness. The more we let this Spirit have his way with us, the more we will resemble Jesus, loving everyone we meet, re-presenting Jesus to our time.
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