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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the 4th Sunday of Lent, sometimes called Laetare Sunday – the Sunday of Rejoicing. We rejoice for Easter is almost here! This is one of the two Sundays of the Church Year when the priest may wear rose colored vestments.
In today’s reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, we read:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them” (2: 8-10).
Grace means God’s help. So, our salvation comes from God helping us, for by ourselves, we cannot achieve salvation.
We do good works not to be saved, but because they are Christ’s commandments to us: feed the hungry, console the sorrowing, give drink to the thirsty, bury the dead, forgive your enemies, and the like.
And because it is God who saves us, and because with God all things are possible, Catholic Christians pray for the salvation of all people – all who lived in the past, all who are now alive, and all who will live in the future.
