“The love of Christ impels us… so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him.” In our psychologizing age the idea of “personal fulfillment” has a high priority. St. Paul says “all have died” in Christ so there is no need to fill oneself but rather to empty oneself in imitation of Christ. Instead of becoming obsessed about our health or about our financial status or about our reputation we should focus on the face of Christ that we recognize in the needy, the hurting, the lonely, the grieving. Taking the spotlight off our ourselves and onto the Body of Christ all around us we begin to live the truth that “old things have passed away, new things have come.”
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By Church Staff
