Wednesday after Judica + 1 Peter 5:1-14
In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. On Sunday we entered into the most solemn part of the Lenten season. Passiontide directs our focus upon the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ for our sins. St. Peter has written quite a bit about Christ’s suffering and death for such a short epistle, saying that “ Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit ” (3:18). He has said that Christ “ bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed ” ( 2:24). Peter has taught us much about the significance of Christ’s death. But He teaches us more. At the beginning of this final chapter he calls himself “ a witness of the sufferings of Christ .” He witnessed Christ’s agony in Gethsemane. He saw Christ’s trial in the house of the High Priest. That’s where he den...