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Today's Gospel: Luke 12:35-38
Gird your loins!
Gird your loins! According to Merriam-Webster, “gird” is “to prepare (oneself) for action." Collins’ Online Dictionary defines “gird” as “to prepare for the difficult or dangerous,” hardly how some people think of Christianity. For many, being a Christian means allowing someone to cut in line, going to church on Sunday, sending children to Sunday school, taking cookies to the neighbors, and giving money to the poor, especially at Christmas.
But the landscape has changed, and we need to gird our loins.
We must prepare ourselves and our children to stand for Christ, to speak the truth, and to give faithful witness to authentic love–no matter the cost or the consequences. We must gird our loins in a culture that distorts the truth with lies: that the human person can remake oneself into one’s own image; the destruction of human life is simply a choice; the poor are dispensable. Or even that there is no God.
Gird your loins to stand strong and faithful. Gird your children’s loins by forming them in the Gospel and bringing them to the sacraments.
These words may be hard to swallow but Jesus tells us to “gird your loins” not to scare us, but to prepare us for the serious challenges we face as followers of Christ. Since the early Church, Christians were known for their love–especially for the vulnerable, the sick, and the outcast. So for now, with joy, gird your loins by strengthening your domestic church, praying with your family, caring for your neighbor, and loving the poor.
Gird your loins and raise your heads for your redemption is at hand!
Ponder:
How will you gird your loins?
Pray:
Dear Lord, help us to gird our loins. Give us the strength to stand for You, no matter the cost.
Copyright 2023 Mary Pedersen
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