Reflection on the readings

One option for this Sunday’s second reading is the passage from Colossians 3: 12-21. In these days of pandemic, financial challenges, and entrenched views about any number of matters, let us reflect on the words of this passage. Nothing will change who we are to God; we are God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved. Let us choose to reflect on this reality on a continual and on-going basis. In pondering who we are to and for God, let us pray as well that we will allow ourselves and encourage one another to be compassionate, kind, humble, gentle and patient. Let us choose to let “the peace of Christ control (y)our hearts, the peace into which (you) we were also called in one body.