HOLY BOLDNESS
Acts 5:27-33; Psalm 34; John 3:31-36
The first reading presents us with the trial of St. Peter and other apostles before the Jewish authorities. The high priest said; “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name”. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood”(Acts 5:28). Peter and the other apostles showed resoluteness and bravery despite the trials! One of the most serious challenges facing evangelization today is fear.
We cannot teach or preach effectively if we are not bold. Christianity has come under violent attack and many Christians are scaredstiff like kids in a dark room. It has become so difficult to exercise the faith in some territories. But like Peter and the other appostles we are called to be bold.
Boldness is a gift that comes from above. Precisely because of this, Jesus tells us that “He who comes from above is above all”. Therefore, we must seek to be born from above; that is, to be born of the Spirit so that we can spread the good news irrespective of tensions and moods.
LET US PRAY
O God, who for the salvation of the world brought about the paschal sacrifice, be favourable to the supplications of your people, so that Christ our High Priest, interceding on our behalf, may by his likeness to ourselves bring us reconciliation, and by his equality with you free us from our sins. Amen.
Fr. Daniel Evbotokhai
