The Wednesday after Quasi modo geniti Sunday
Posted on April 15, 2026 by under
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NKJV)
1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because
“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
25 “But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Devotion
“Being born again…through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.”
Peter does not ground the new birth in emotion. He anchors it in the preached Word. That Word which exposed your sin also gave you Christ. The Word that cut you also healed you.
All flesh is grass. That includes your strength, your resolve, your religious performance. Grass withers. Flowers fade. But the Word of the Lord abideth forever. That Word has been preached unto you.
Quasimodogeniti calls us “newborn babes”. Infants do not feed themselves. They receive. They cry out. They depend. So also, faith clings to the pure milk of the Word. Not novelty. Not speculation. It clings to the apostolic Gospel. From that Word flows love for the brethren. Not sentimentality, but a sincere heart purified by faith. When Christ’s forgiveness fills the conscience, it spills over in patience, mercy, and endurance.
You live because the Word speaks. You remain because the Word abides. The Church stands not by personality or trend, but by what God has said. And what He has said is this: Christ is risen for you.
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.
