New Beginnings

LECTIO:                                       1 Corinthians 5:6-8

New International Version

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

STUDIUM:

There is a situation that provokes Paul advice.  One of the community is sleeping with his mother or stepmother.  Worse, the community is not treating this abomination as harmful.

To explain Paul's position he uses the Passover preparations as an example.  All yeast products have to be removed from the house before Passover.  You get rid of every form of yeast, if you are committed to making a new beginning.  Paul wants the Corinthian community to be the new unleavened bread.

MEDITATIO:

Paul's words bring to mind, Confession.  We penitents get rid of our sins and begin again.  

ORATIO:

Our new life is beginning.

CONTEMPLATIO:

I choose to do good.

RESOLUTIO:

I must make an effort to go to frequent Confession.