Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 28, 2009 – Blessed Sacrament
In our second reading today, from St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians, we have one of those lapidary statements that sum up the essence of the Christian Gospel. Paul defines “the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ” in this way: “Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake so that through his poverty you might become rich.” It describes an exchange which is found elsewhere in Paul’s writings and would be echoed and enriched in later Christian writings.
In his Epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul says: “God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as [God’s] children.” (more…)