Fourth Sunday after Easter AD 2026

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.” St. James’ words speak with quiet clarity about both the natural and the supernatural. The idea that the universe sprang from nothing, or that life in all its astonishing richness arose by blind chance, simply doesn’t hold up—either to reason or to genuine science. A world that truly came from nothing would not exist at all, and a universe left entirely to itself would have long since run down and vanished. Nothing exists by accident. Everything has a purpose and  a source—and that source is God.

St. James reminds us that whatever comes from God is good. Yet for that goodness to endure, it must remain connected to Him. This is where the mystery of evil begins. Evil is not something God created; it arises when we turn away from Him. It is the result of rejecting the very order and life He has given—rebelling not only against God, but against the way we ourselves were made.

There is, however, a way back. The answer is to be restored to communion with God. This is His greatest gift—the gift beyond all others: that through His incarnate Son, the bond between humanity and its Creator is made whole again. The Son of God humbled Himself, becoming obedient even to death, and gave Himself for us, so that we might live anew—welcomed into God’s presence as His children, reborn through grace. “Of His own will He begat us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.”