"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me," says the Lord. How can that be when we are sinners and he is the Way, the truth and the Life? As long as we live out of our ego and strive to assert it in the world we are not going to live as he did, speak as he did and pray as he did. St paul tells us, "But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him." (Rom 6: 8) Our identification with Christ is the key to how the world with treat us. This means we need to die to ourselves: "Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it." (Mtt 10: 39) Only when our lives are conformed to Christ and we are united to him as our heavenly bridegroom can we truly says that the promises given in the Gospel will be true for us.
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