Hark! the voice of Jesus calling, “Who will go and work today?
Fields are white and harvests waiting, Who will bear the sheaves away?”
Loud and long the Master calls you, Rich reward He offers free;
Who will answer, gladly, saying, “Here am I, send me, send me?”

Luke 10:2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

John 4:35 Do you not say, `Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

That call goes out to each of us. Mission work is not just something for “those people over there.” It is the responsibility of everyone who has heard the Good News of Jesus as Savior. You have taken to heart the message of what the shed blood of Jesus has done for you. You are reminded of the forgiveness and life and salvation that He has given each time you receive the Sacrament of the Altar. Your life of response is to share this message.

“Who will go and work today?” Granted, each of us do it in different capacities and with differing gifts, but it is the work to which each of us has been called.

Will you do that work today?