{"id":12388,"date":"2026-05-08T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:23:41","slug":"courage-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2026\/05\/08\/courage-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage, Explained!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Roman Rite, bishops extend their hands over confirmandi, praying that they will be given &#8220;a spirit of right judgment and courage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This invocation echoes countless passages of sacred Scripture extolling the virtue of courage. &#8220;Be strong and courageous in your hearts, all you who place your hope in the Lord,&#8221; says Psalm 31:25. &#8220;I have given you a command. Be strong and brave, do not be afraid nor dismayed. I, the Lord, your God, will be with you wherever you go,&#8221; the Lord says in Joshua 1:9. Courage is also a frequent watchword of Christ: &#8220;Take courage! I have overcome the world.&#8221; (John 16:33)<\/p>\n<p>The virtue of courage is intimately linked with that of fortitude roughly understood as courage in action and is shown by the person who makes a choice to place his trust in God, not in circumstance.<br \/>\n\u00a9LPi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Roman Rite, bishops extend their hands over confirmandi, praying that they will be given &#8220;a spirit of right judgment and courage.&#8221; This invocation echoes countless passages of sacred Scripture extolling the virtue of courage. &#8220;Be strong and courageous in your hearts, all you who place your hope in the Lord,&#8221; says Psalm 31:25.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}