- Isaiah 2: 1-5
- Psalms 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
- Romans 13: 11-14
- Matthew 24: 36-44
- Peace in our time?
- Peace between nations, tribes, communities, families seems so distant. One party takes advantage of the other, threatens them in some way, and conflict breaks out.
- How would you define true peace?
- Can we rationally expect to see true peace in this life?
- Who are some peace heroes in your life?
- How did they accomplish what they did?
- Is any of their lives something that you can emulate?
- Bring a friend. Better yet, bring two.
- Evangelizing comes in many forms. You belong to a reading group, and you bring a friend. You know someone who has nowhere to go for the holidays, and you invite them to Thanksgiving with you. You know someone curious about the Catholic faith, and you offer to sponsor them in RCIA.
- Think of a time when you evangelized.
- What gave you the courage to offer?
- Was that person that you brought warmly received and welcomed?
- Is there anything keeping you from inviting others today?
- Waking up
- It's easy to get so caught up in the day to day that we lose track of the larger picture, essentially to be unaware of, asleep to the greater shifts in our world.
- How do you find the broader meaning in your life?
- Why do you bother?
- How do you think Jesus makes your life more full of meaning?
- Being ready
- Each of us has responsibilities in this life that are particular to us, things that no one else can do or say.
- How have you gone about finding out what those things are that God is calling you to in life?
- Did His call in your life ever change?
- How did you figure that out?
- Preparation for Reconciliation
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Where is my faith journey taking me today?
- How can my community, my family, my very heart be more welcoming?
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Who are the prophets that I'm listening to today?
- Am I doing what's important?
Doing God's Work
Most of us look incredibly ordinary.
We get up each morning, get dressed, get breakfast, commute to work.
Then we spend the day fighting entropy - that constant force
That wears everything down, promotes the path of least resistance,
Gradually, inexorably, reduces the finest buildings to rubble.
Or is there more to life?
Is it possible that the mere fact that we are, where we are,
As Christ's advance men and women here in this world,
Doing our best to put skin on Christ's presence in this world,
That we are making a witness, a proclamation,
That holiness can be found in the strangest places.
The question is, do you feel holy?
What moves you, stirs you, energizes you each day?
Is it just about success, recognition, appreciation, even a paycheck,
Or is there something more?
Do you step into your work with anticipation,
Knowing that you are making the world a better place to live?
Are you doing what you were born to do today?
What would that feel like?
Would you be proud of what you are doing,
How you are doing it
Why you are doing it,
What the doing has done to you?
Or will you hang your head in tears of shame for wasting your life?
What's holding you back from the holiness that God has for you?
Is it fear of being alone, not getting the support you need, failure in the end?
Do you fear that this next chapter in your life will not be enough to sustain you?
Do you fear that you will not have the ability to do your dream boldly and well?
How will you know until you try?
What would it feel like to live the dream, to be fully alive, to be holy before God?
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