Sacramentally Dead to the Law and Alive to God (Mon. Sept. 27)

The word of the day is “law.”  We take it for granted that the Mosaic Law and its regulations and restrictions do not apply to us.  But today, we reflect on why it no longer holds us captive.  We learn that freedom from the law is not a generality.  In Holy Baptism, each one is personally released from the bondage to the law and its judgement and given the grace of the Holy Spirit.  Today, we learn to think sacramentally about our salvation.  We realize that the water and oil of the Holy Mystery of Baptism and Chrismation are agents of grace by which we die to sin and rise to the freedom of the New Life of Christ in…