Some key points in today’s passage:
- The idea of “sacrifice” is still very much an important aspect of our Christian faith;
- Our entire person—body and soul—is our personal share in the daily sacrifice of the Body of Christ; “what we do in the body” daily, as St. Paul say elsewhere, is how we “suffer with Christ”; (Col 1:24; Rom 8:17; Phil 1:29);
- This requires a transformed state of mind, living out the Our Father;
- This requires living out the Beatitudes: detachment from world, sin, self (verse 12:3);
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