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By Deacon Michael Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life, March 3, 2024

Deacon Michael Bickerstaff is the Editor in chief and co-founder of the The Integrated Catholic Life.™ and the President of Virtue@Work. A Catholic Deacon of the Roman Rite for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Deacon Bickerstaff is assigned to St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church where he is the Director of Discipleship. NB: The views I express on this site are my own. I am not an official spokesman for either my parish or diocese.

In the New Covenant, God offers us the grace of salvation and new life in Christ. We are not just rescued from something; we are rescued for new life.

LIBERATION FROM SLAVERY

Lent is a time to examine how we are living. Each of us were created by God for a purpose and a spiritual end because He loves us and wants to give us every good thing. So, with this in mind, we should ask…

Am I living well?

Am I living in Christ?

Or perhaps have I lost my way and become enslaved to sin?

We must never take our life in Christ for granted.

The Book of Exodus, from which today’s first reading is taken, is the story of how God liberated the people of Israel from Egypt. In a deeper, more important sense, it is the story of their liberation from the bondage of sin. ….