The Saturday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 18, 2026 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
The Law was our tutor. It confined. It exposed. It guarded us until Christ came. The Law does not justify. It prepares by condemning. Now that faith has come, you are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Baptized into Christ, you have put on Christ. Not partially. Not ceremonially. You are in reality clothed in Christ. His righteousness wraps you. The Father sees His Son.
In a fractured world, Paul speaks unity: neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female. The distinctions remain in creation, yet before God there is one standing—Christ’s. And if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise. Heirs do not earn inheritance. They receive it because of the father’s will. The promise given to Abraham finds its ‘Yes’ in Jesus. And you, joined to Him, receive what was sworn long ago.
Quasimodogeniti calls you newborn. Galatians calls you heir. Both are true because Christ is risen. Live as one clothed in Him.
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.
