Homily for Tuesday, Octave of Easter
April 2, 2024
Acts 2: 36-41
Collect
Christian Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
Statue of St. Peter
at Basilica of St. Paul, Rome
We
prayed in the collect that God endow us with heavenly gifts. In his Pentecost preaching, Peter identifies
the 1st of those gifts, the forgiveness of our sins, and the 2d gift, the Holy
Spirit.
Our
sins would weigh on us as we considered God’s judgment. In our Lord Jesus, he’s lifted great weight
from our shoulders and our hearts and replaced it with the light yoke of
fellowship with Jesus (Matt 11:29) and the practice of charity. The gift of the Holy Spirit helps us live in
charity with one another, “possessed of perfect freedom” (collect)—or at least
tending in that direction as we strive to live as brothers of our Lord Jesus
and of one another.
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