Χριστός
CHRIST JESUS
They preached everyday both in the Temple and in private houses, and their proclamation of the Good News of CHRIST JESUS was never interrupted.
When you make Solemn Profession as a Benedictine as part of the ceremony you sing a verse from Ps 118(9), ‘Receive me Lord, according to your promise, and I shall live: do not disappoint me in my hope.’ In these words you put your whole trust in the promise of Christ to uphold you. You make concrete your desire that everything you undertake within the monastery will have only one goal: ‘to prefer nothing to Christ’ (Rule of St Benedict).
When the apostles set about proclaiming the Good News of Christ Jesus they put their full trust in the cosmic power of Christ’s death and resurrection. They are upheld by His promise to be with them always, even to the ends of time. The relationships they each had with Christ now become public. In their preaching and their daily living they show that they prefer nothing to Christ.
How can you proclaim Christ in your daily living?
(Acts 5:24-42, Friday, Second Week of Eastertide)