Setting his people free

Zachariah proclaims that God “has come to his people and set them free.” Freedom is the reason for Christ. It is what God always wants to do. He hates the fact that we’ve become enslaved by sin and fear, and accordingly, he wants to liberate us. The central event of the Old Testament is an event of liberation from slavery. We are, as sinners, enslaved to our pride, our envy, our anger, our appetites, our greed, our lust—all of which wrap us up and keep us from being the people that we want to be.

Lord set me free from any form of slavery of sin.

O Mary conceived without sin,
Pray for us who have recourse to thee

Fr Georges sac