And [Jesus] sent [the twelve] out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt.” Luke 9:2-3
“They must travel light—only take what was essential and leave behind whatever would distract them—in order to concentrate on the task of speaking the Word of the God…The Lord wants his disciples to be dependent on him, not on themselves.”
Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. Luke 22:35
Joe Dorcey in The Redemptorists of the Denver Province blogpost for 3 October 2013.