Wednesday after Reminiscere + 1 Peter 2:1-25
In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. In chapter 1, St. Peter taught us that we live in the world but we are not of it. We are elect foreigners, refugees of the heavenly country because we have been “ born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever ” ( 1:23). At the beginning of chapter 2 Peter continues this initial thought. “ Desires the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good ” (2:2). Peter isn’t making a distinction between “infant” Christians and mature Christians. St. Paul makes than comparison in 1 Corinthians 3. He tells the Corinthians that he initially fed them with milk, not solid food, but he had expected them to have been weaned off milk and eating solid food, though they weren’t. That’s not what Peter is doing here. Peter writes to all Christians to tell them that they should be like newborn babes. As newborn babes ...