Davenportdiocese.org Website Review

The Chancery will be closed from Monday, Dec. 24th to Tuesday, Jan. 1st then reopen Wednesday, Jan. 2nd. Merry Christmas and Happy New “Christmas is the feast of the loving humility of God….” — Pope Francis Pope Francis reminds us, God’s humble love is on full display at Christmas — a God so madly in love with us that God will do whatever it takes to draw near to us. As St. Irenaeus put it over 1,800 years ago: “Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that Having been so loved, we are called to share that love in return. But, how? How do we show our gratitude for so great a gift? How are we to be more like Jesus? The Gospel reading for the Christmas Mas* at Dawn (Luke 2:15-20), which tells us of the shepherds’ visit to the We read that, after Mary heard the shepherds’ account, she “kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.” Throughout this liturgical year, as we read from Luke’s Gospel, we’ll see Jesus presented as a man of prayer, dedicated to time alone with his Father. relationship with our loving Father, through Christ our brother, by the power of the Holy Spirit. How else can we hear God’s call and We also read that the shepherds, after having met the Christ-Child, went back to their fields, to their day-to-day lives. But they went back changed, “glorifying and praising God.” We, too, are sent from our encounter with Christ, especially at Mas*, back to share the Good News wherever we find ourselves: at school or work, within our families, in the wider culture, at the peripheries. As we read from Luke’s Gospel during this liturgical year, we’ll see Jesus presented as a man of compas*ion, dedicated to serving those say and do? How might we do so with greater love and compas*ion? Contemplation and action: the way of shepherds, the way of Mary, the way of Jesus. I hope that we all embrace this journey! As fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, we are all called to serve one another according to our gifts and abilities.  On this website