The second scripture reading on Sundays in the Easter Season this year is from the First Letter of Peter. The letter in the main is a baptismal homily. The season of Easter is baptismal: the church celebrates full initiation into the corporate Body of Christ and everyone's baptism.
At Thinking Faith Jesuit Peter Edmonds considered each Sunday selection from the First Letter of Peter. He offered an important reminder: the letter’s imagery speaks as poetry, which is the language of liturgy. “We listen to Peter…as we read in our exile the letter sent out long ago in his name. …May his words deepen our knowledge about God, about the Lord Jesus Christ and about our own calling as Christians so that we may become better citizens of the Kingdom of God.”
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