In today’s First Reading, we are taken to a prison in Philippi, where Paul and Silas were taken for preaching the Gospel. When an earthquake opened their cell doors, they remained behind and shared the Good news with their jailer. Any Catholic who treats the faith as a private devotional practice has already given in to a modern life, a theology of isolation that will result in the fragmentation of the body of Christ. Jesus didn’t come to decorate our hearts’ private sentiment. He came to reign over every home, every church, every society, every culture, and every nation as Lord. Marcus has more.

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