Today we continue to hear about charges brought against Paul in our reading from the Acts of the Apostles. Specifically, we hear the charges being explained to Herod Agrippa, the head of this region of the Roman empire. It is explained to Herod that Paul is not accused by the chief priests and the elders of the Jewish people of criminal charges related to laws of the Roman empire, but rather of violating Jewish religious laws, specifically related to Jesus, who Paul claims is alive.
How is Jesus alive in our hearts today? At the Easter Vigil Mass this year, Pope Francis stated in his homily: “To return to a lively love of the Lord is essential, otherwise, ours is a ‘museum’ faith, not an Easter faith. Jesus is not a personage from the past; he is a person living today. We do not know him from history books; we encounter him in life.” The Pope states that Christ, the living one, must be at the center of our lives. For this to happen, we Christians must ask for the grace not to be “carried by the current, the sea of our problems; the grace not to run aground on the shoals of sin or crash on the reefs of discouragement and fear.” I love how the pope expresses himself.
Indeed, Christ is there alive for us if we let him enter our lives.
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