Get out of jail free

Sometimes we feel trapped.

Sometimes we feel we cannot break a particular bad habit, extract ourselves from a particular immoral situation, or live the kind of saintly life we want to.

In today’s second reading (1 Peter 3:18-22), we hear words of hope in Christ.

...(H)e also went to preach to the spirits in prison,
who had once been disobedient...

No matter what moral, spiritual or emotional prison we may be in, Christ can set us free, if only we open ourselves entirely to him, his grace, and his will.

Come and set us free, Lord.