comfort
Day 12: Comfort
Editor’s Note: On the twelfth day of our Advent blog series, “Following the Holy Family in Solidarity,” DC Service Corps alumna Jennifer Eburuoh shares her openness to comforting those around her, inspired by God’s call to be a comforter. “Comfort, give comfort to my people.” I recently read a commentary on this passage of Isaiah…
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Update From Bolivia: Patience and an Open Heart
New lay missioner Annemarie Barrett has been in Bolivia since January 2013. Here is her update on her experience so far. Without the comfort of familiar schedules, places and plans, I can tell you now that the process of growing into a new context is even more challenging than I had expected it to be.…
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Prayers for Christmas: Comfort and Hope
Kathy Snider on mission in Guatemala, 1998 to 2000. Today’s prayer for Christmas comes from returned missioner Kathy Snider: “My prayer for Christmas is for those who have experienced loss of a loved one due to death or separation, of home due to natural disasters or foreclosure, of food and due to drought and poverty,…
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