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Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Galatians 3:22–29
Saint Paul continues to speak to the Galatians.
They are tempted to place themselves under the law of Moses.
But Paul wants them to understand something deeper.
The law can tell us what is right.
The law can tell us what is wrong.
The law can warn us.
The law can punish us.
But the law cannot change the heart.
This is the great problem of human life.
We often know what is good,
but we do not always do it.
We know we should forgive,
but we hold on to resentment.
We know we should love,
but we choose ourselves.
We know we should obey God,
but sin still pulls us in another direction.
Saint Paul says that all are imprisoned under sin.
This is not pleasant to hear.
But it is honest.
Humanity needs more than instruction.
We need salvation.
We need grace.
We need the Holy Spirit.
Paul compares the law to a guardian.
A guardian watches.
A guardian corrects.
A guardian keeps order.
But a guardian is not the final goal.
The law prepared the way for Christ.
It showed sin.
It showed the need for mercy.
It kept alive the hope for God’s promise.
But when Christ came,
something new began.
Through His death and resurrection,
He brought forgiveness.
Through faith and baptism,
He united us to Himself.
Through the Holy Spirit,
He began to write God’s law in our hearts.
Now we are not only people under rules.
We are children of God in Christ Jesus.
Paul says:
Through faith, you are all children of God in Christ Jesus.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourselves with Christ.
This is the great dignity of every baptized person.
We belong to Christ.
We are clothed with Christ.
We are made new in Christ.
Then Paul says one of the strongest lines in the New Testament:
There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free,
there is no male and female,
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
In Christ, no one is second class.
No one is outside the promise.
No one is less loved.
This does not erase our differences.
But it gives us a deeper unity.
We are all children of God.
We are all heirs of the promise.
We are all one in Christ Jesus.
So today we can ask:
Do I live as a child of God?
Do I treat others as children of God?
Do I build unity,
or do I keep divisions alive?
Christ has made us one.
Let us live what we have become.
Biblical Reflections on the Gospel of Matthew
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