Let me ask you respectfully: why are you here?Why have you gathered in this church this morning?I recognize there are many different reasons why you decided to come to Mass this Sunday. But I hope that for many the chief reason is the one St. Paul gives in today’s second reading:because the Good News has been proclaimed to you;becuase you accepted it, stand firm in it, and believe you are being saved by it.Specifically, I hope we are here because we believe that Christ died for our sins, that he was buried and that he was raised on the third
