Preaching for the Third Sunday of Lent, Jennifer Delvaux offers a reflection on pushing ourselves outside of our comfort zones and into encounters:
"The story reminds us that we have to, as Jesus did, intentionally go out of ourselves. Go out of our parishes. Out of the comfort what is our normal – to find the ostracized and to talk with them. To ask them questions and to listen to their answers. To acknowledge and celebrate their joys. To acknowledge and grieve the tragedies in their lives. To invite them into our communities and to walk with them, so they recognize that they truly belong as God wills it."
Jennifer Delvaux is Senior Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, where she supports parishes in the efforts to develop a culture of evangelization and missionary disciples. She enjoys these opportunities to enter in to conversation with others about faith, social justice, science fiction, the experience of the feminine in the Church, and especially breaking open the scriptures.
Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/03152020 to learn more about Jennifer, to read her preaching text, and for more preaching from Catholic women.
