December 2, 2024 Daily Devotion

Life is an Adventure. Dare It!

To live is Christ, to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21

This hymn was taken from the October 2024 Magnificat: “Sing praise for all the martyrs who carried Jesus’ cross. They followed in his footsteps; they counted gain as loss. Our heroines and heroes, their blood the Church’s seed, whose witness to the Gospel led to their dying deed.

Saints John and Isaac served you, with voice and mind and hand, to spread the holy Gospel across a vast new land. With eager zeal they traveled to spread the faith abroad, to baptize to salvation and shed their blood for God. All praise to God the Father, who made the martyrs be, and praise the Holy Spirit, their fount of charity.

All praises to Christ Jesus, let crowns before him fall, exemplar of the martyrs: their joy, their love, their All.”