Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
As young kids, what were we told when we did something wrong? Weren’t we told, “don’t do that again?” In our first reading today, the Apostles were thrown into the jail cells because the Sadducees said that the Apostles were doing wrong! God’s soldiers, the angels, freed the Apostles from their jail cells and told them to get back to teaching the people. I think the Sadducees were hoping that if they arrested the Apostles, they wouldn’t try this again, they were wrong. For the Apostles, they weren’t doing wrong, they were doing right by God. And their faith and trust in God give them all the courage they needed to stomp out any doubts or fears they might have doing this work for the Lord.
Do we ever have any hesitations, fears, or doubts being faithful and doing God’s work? Brothers and sisters, if we fully love God, and if we fully believe in God and everything that He is about, then like the Apostles, we will have no fears or doubts for what we are doing. St. Pius V, pray for us.
Reflection by Fr. Macario Martinez, OSB
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