Saturday, October 24 : Saint Leo the Great

Let us strive to be found associated with Christ’s resurrection and pass from death to life while still in this mortal body. For to pass through a conversion of whatever kind, to pass from one state to another, signifies the end of something for each of us – not to be what one was – and the beginning of something else – becoming what one was not. But it is important to know for whom one is dying and for whom one lives since there is a kind of death that brings about life and a kind of life that brings about death. And it is precisely in this passing world that both the one and the other are found. It is by the quality of our actions here below that that the difference between eternal retributions will hang. Let us die, therefore, to the devil and live for God; let us die to sin to rise up to righteousness; let the old self disappear that the new self may arise. Because, according to the word of Truth, “No one can serve two masters” (Mt 6,24) let us take as our master not he who causes the upright to stumble so as to lead them to destruction but he who lifts up the fallen to lead them to glory.

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