From Death To Life

St Basil says in today's office :

"To attain holiness, then, we must not only pattern our lives on Christ’s by being gentle, humble and patient, we must also imitate him in his death. Taking Christ for his model, Paul said that he wanted to become like him in his death in the hope that he too would be raised from death to life."

It is not often that we think of imitating Christ in his death. Generally we think of his great commission, do greater things than he did, really making an impact on the world. Yet sacred theology teaches us that it is this association with Christ's death burial and resurrection at baptism that makes us a new creation (Rom 6:4).

I wonder how great an impact we would have on our societies if indeed we worshipped the Crucified Christ, in His humility and complete self-giving. Oh, how our own spiritual life would be impacted by our association with and imitation of the suffering Lord.

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