Br. Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., on Remembering the Gospel

"Saint Paul's exhortation in our first reading at Mass today underscores the importance of memory in the Christian life. I am reminding you, brothers, he says, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand (1 Cor 15:1). The new Christians in Corinth had evidently gotten distracted, thus forgetting what Paul had handed on to them as of first importance, which he also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures (1 Cor 15:3-4).

"Surely for us, when we were on the way out of the Easter Vigil or on the ride home from Easter Sunday Mass, these very same saving truths were freshly impressed upon our minds, along with their accompanying sights, sounds, and scents. But now, over two weeks later . . . what about the Gospel preached to us, which we indeed received and in which we so recently stood exultant? 

"The old adage 'out of sight, out of mind' is instructive here. . . ."

In a recent commentary, Brother Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., reflected on how living faith "demands that we both believe the truths that God reveals and do the sensorial-intellectual things that God commends for our salvation."

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Dominicana: Remembering the Gospel (3 MAY 22)