May 2, 2020

4th Sunday of Easter (May 3, 2020)


The New Normal

“The new normal” is the catch phrase these days. 

What is the new normal of Christianity?  It is actually not new.  Or as St. Augustine put it, it is “ever ancient, ever new.”

We heard of this new normal in today’s second reading, from the First Letter of St. Peter.  “He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness.  By his wounds you have been healed.”

That we have been healed to live for righteousness is the abundant life about which Jesus said, “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” 

 
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