Our world tells us that self-fulfillment is the purpose of life. "Live your dreams, pursue your own path, make the most out of it!" But Christ offers us a different, better way to live - a life lived for others, giving of oneself so that the fruit of virtues and the fruit of sanctified souls is borne in your life. Paradoxically, it is in dying to oneself that we find true joy and fulfillment - as Pope St. John Paul II says, "Man can only find himself in a sincere gift of himself!"