Be Courageous Daily Reflections Week of 12/4 - 12/11
The Be Courageous Daily Reflections are daily emails sent to your inbox featuring a reflection on one of the readings of the day. These are provided by writers from throughout the diocese.
The Be Courageous Daily Reflections are daily emails sent to your inbox featuring a reflection on one of the readings of the day. These are provided by writers from throughout the diocese.
December 4: Love as He Loves
What is striking about this Gospel reading is how tangible Jesus' humanity is as he expresses the movement of his heart...
December 5: Take Action
We may talk a big game, but if we don’t have the action to back it up, it will always fall short as simply words. Jesus reminds us about something basic...
December 6: Cultivating Patience
If the Lord calls us to be patient, we need to trust that there is a purpose for it...
December 7: Suffering Together
These readings move our attention from the future to the present. The promise that our weeping will not last forever, allows us now to weep...
December 8: Hopeful Expectation
In today’s Gospel we hear about John the Baptist, who fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy from Isaiah by “crying out in the desert”, to prepare the way for the coming of Jesus Christ...
December 9: Fearless Commitment
However, at the core of the anxiety that accompanies any decision, big or small, is the same thing: fear. Mary’s response to the angel Gabriel gives us one of the biggest commitments ever made in human history...
December 10: Rejoicing in Our Return
Jesus’ illustration of a shepherd going out of his way for one lost sheep remains an important reminder of who our God is for us sinners...
December 11: Reaching Others
Some feel they have justification to turn away, causing an estrangement with the one who created all things. And despite this, God “leads out their army and numbers them, calling them by name..."
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