On the third Sunday after Pentecost, Dn Mark Therrien (Th.M. ‘24) focuses on two key words in the Epistle reading:”justified” and “stand”. As we now settle into a more “normal”, post-Paschal and post-Pentecost season of the year, the temptation is to relax into complacency or lukewarmness towards our faith. Dn Mark shows how the Epistle reading holds a pointed instruction to the faithful to continue to remember Christ’s saving Resurrection, in which he justified the faithful by restoring all the disorder and death of the fallen world to harmony and life. We must stand in this knowledge and hold fast to our faith and to Christ, even when it becomes easy to be forgetful or disengaged.