Ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. In the past when we heard these words of Jesus we took them as the invitation to pray for more vocations to the priesthood and religious life. They were the laborers, were they not? The Church today realizes that all Christians are all called to be “laborers for the harvest.” Pope Francis says we are to be “missionary disciples.” The founder of my community, Fr. Judge, put it: “Every Catholic is called to be an apostle.” Jesus shows the motivation to labor for the harvest: his heart was moved with pity for them. Ask that we might be moved to act with compassion toward the hungry and the hurting and the lost.
