Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, Preacher of the Papal Household, in his fourth Lenten meditation focused on the place of obedience in the Christian life. He reflected on themes from St Paul’s Letter to the Romans: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.” He addressed the gathering with the message and significance of obedience in a Christian’s life and highlighted that every type of Christian obedience must be rooted not in obedience to human beings, but to God.
As reported by Vatican Radio, Fr. Cantalamessa remarked that “Christ, the Obedient One is the head of those who choose to be obedient in opposition to Adam who was the head of the disobedient. As Christians, Paul tells us that Christians have freely submitted ourselves to Christ on the day of baptism. Therefore, with baptism, there came a change of masters, a shift of kingdoms: from sin to righteousness, from disobedience to obedience, from Adam to Christ.”
Fr. Cantalamessa concluded his remarks by reminding that obedience is the essential component in the Christian life
