Today’s Gospel challenges us to face rejection with prophetic courage and optimism. Very often our friends, families, or childhood companions fail to listen to us and refuse to accept the words of grace, love, and encouragement that we offer to them because they know so much about us and are so used to us that they disregard what we have to say, if they even hear it! But we have to face such rejection with a kind of prophetic courage … Continue reading Speak the truth in love