The Saturday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on May 3, 2025 by under
Scripture: Galatians 3:23-29 (NKJV)
3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Devotion
We do well to remember that the faith we have is a gift from God. St. Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesians that God, “even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)” (Eph. 2:5).
The Law functioned as a “tutor,” as guardian of sorts, for the people of the Old Testament, to keep them looking for the Christ who was to come, and through whom they have the forgiveness of sins. God’s gift to the people of the Old Testament was faith in Jesus. Now that Jesus has come, “we are no longer under a tutor.” However, God still uses the Law to show us our sins and our need for forgiveness through the same faith in Jesus Christ that He gave to the people of the Old Testament.
While God’s people of the Old Testament could be distinguished from Gentile people, now the making of such distinctions has ceased, for Christ has come. People with faith in Christ are just that, in Christ, and one with Him. Yet, while they are one in Christ, which cannot be seen, what can still be seen is Jew and Greek, slave and free, male, and female. We can thank God for making us unique individuals, and yet one in Christ through faith.
Collect: Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we who have celebrated the solemnities of the Lord’s Resurrection, may, by the help of Thy grace, bring forth the fruits thereof in our life and conversation; through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
