Monday, October 30, 2023

Homily for Monday, 30th Week of Ordinary Time

Homily for Monday
30th Week of Ordinary Time

Oct. 30, 2023
Rom 8: 12-17
Provincial House, New Rochelle


Paul has been contrasting our unredeemed selves, which he calls “the flesh” (Rom 8:12) and which live in slavery to sin (8:15), with our redeemed selves, saved by the grace of Christ.  This grace is a gift of the Spirit of God, which unites us with God and makes us his children (8:15-16).  The Father has adopted us in Christ and made us heirs of the heavenly kingdom alongside Christ (8:17).  Led by the Spirit, we acknowledge God as Abba (8:15), commit ourselves to him, are freed from sin (cf. 8:13), and give him thanks in our Eucharistic celebration.  The Spirit leads us thru “the passageways of death” (Ps 68:21) to life in God’s house.

(by Bernini)

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