Monday 18 October 2021
Christ has faced death and triumphed over it so we might not fear the call to follow him through the way of the cross and dying to self.
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Christ has faced death and triumphed over it so we might not fear the call to follow him through the way of the cross and dying to self.
It is only by letting go, and letting God act in our daily struggle, that we are able to have a foretaste of the manifold beauty of the life of the kingdom, and receive the riches promised by Christ.
The sacrament of marriage provides one of the main models for, and language of, understanding the relationship between God and humanity in the covenantal promise, between Christ and his bride the Church, and the final consummation between heaven and earth in the renewed creation.
The abandonment of the self to the will of God is the essential first steps to the transformation of the world. Without it we inevitably remain a part of the problem.