03-08-24 Berani Berbeda: Menjelajahi keberanian walaupun melawan arus

Renungan Harian Katolik · Aug 2, 2024 · 4m

Saturday 17th week in ordinary time "Mt 14:1-12" Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet. John spoke up. He could have kept silent and saved his life. 'Anyway', he could have thought, 'is Herod going to change by any chance, just because I tell him off?' There are martyrs who have given their lives for the sacrament of the Eucharist; others, for being…