Reasons to be Fearless and Confident
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Fr. Eric Nicolai preached this meditation at Lyncroft Centre in Toronto, on January 2, 2026.
Acts of the Apostles repeatedly describes the Apostles speaking with parrhesia—freedom, frankness, fearless speech (Acts 2:29 ; 4:13 , 29, 31). They had received the spirit of adoption. Of divine filiation.
Paul still throbs with this parrhesia, the thrill that he witnessed in the apostles. “You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ (Rom 8:15 ). How can this fearless sense of conviction imbue us as sons and daughters of God in 2026?
Music: Angelic Choir Library with license, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Thumbnail: Apostles at Pentecost 1030-1040, Ottonian parchment, Regensburg The J. Paul Getty Museum
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