If you understand the mystery of God's boundless love and kindness,
says the apostle, and realize all that the Son of God has done for
our salvation, then have among yourselves the same attitude as was
found in Christ Jesus. Let not the rich despise Christ's
self-abasement, nor those of noble birth count it a disgrace. No
matter how exalted our worldly fortunes may be, we must never be
ashamed of the fact that He who had always been God by nature did not
consider it beneath His dignity to assume the nature of a slave.
Imitate what He did, love what He loved, and, in return for the grace
of God which you find in yourselves, love your own humanity in Him.
He lost none of His wealth by becoming poor; His humiliation did not
lessen His glory nor did He forfeit eternity by dying.
You also then must walk in His footsteps and learn to despise the
things of this world in order to lay hold of the treasures of the
next. To take up the cross means to put our sinful desires to death,
to slay our vices, to turn aside from empty pleasures, and to
renounce every deviation from the truth.
Pope St. Leo the Great
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Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue
with Your help,
so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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