There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:18-19 NABRE)
Christian life is founded on the knowledge of God as love and on his continuing presence that relieves us from fear of judgment. What Christ is gives us confidence, even as we live and love in this world. Yet Christian love is not abstract but lived in the concrete manner of love for one another.*
Today, I will put aside fear and remember the confidence of Christ who loved me first.
Saint André Bessette, who had a lifelong devotion to Saint Joseph, pray for us.
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