The Eleven disciples went to Galilee
The Twelve was reduced to Eleven when Judas hanged himself. Only later would the disciples choose a replacement. "Then they gave lots to them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was counted with the eleven apostles (Act 1:26)".
To the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
In Scriptures, the mountain was the place where God manifested himself. God gave Moses the Decalog on Mt. Sinai. On Mt. Carmel, God showed himself the true God through the prophet Elijah.
When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
A variant is "but some doubted." Another way of translating the verb is "of little faith". Matthew used it to describe the disciples of Jesus whose faith in him is not as deep as it should be.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
The Great Commission. We have to tell the world of the message of Jesus Christ even if it falls on deaf ears.
Baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Baptism makes us belong to the Blessed Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That is why Baptism is a fundamental sacrament.
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