Our first reading is a letter from St. Paul to the community of believers in Colassae. It was a community begun by a compatriot of Paul’s, a man named Epaphras who visited Paul in prison to give him a report on the community. He reports to Paul that the community is under a lot of pressure from the secular/philosophical/religious world that surrounds them. And so Paul writes to the community: “See to it that no one captivates you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to the tradition of men, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ.” (Col 2:8) Continue reading
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