Sunday, July 13 : Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Let us have a care for the bodies of others no less than the care each one has for his own body; whether it is sound and healthy, or consumed by this very isease.For we are all one in the Lord, rich or poor, bond or free, sound or sick; and one is the Head of all, He from Whom are all things, namely, Christ. These then, and much more besides, are the afflictions of those who are our brothers in God, whether you wish it or not; born with the same nature. More than this; they also, if I may speak of the higher things, have received the same divine image as we have, and have perhaps guarded it better; even though their bodies have dissolved in corruption. They have put on the same Christ, according to the inward man (Rom. vii. 22), and to them the same pledge of the Spirit (II Cor. v. 5) has been given. They have been made sharers with us of the same laws, of the same doctrine, of the same Testaments, of the same assemblies, of the same Mysteries, of the same hope. Christ Who takes away the sins of the whole world, died for them as He died for us (Jn. i. 29). And even though they are now deprived of all earthly happiness, yet they are heirs with us to eternal life. They are buried with Christ, and with Him they return to life (Col. ii. 12). With Him they suffer, that they may also be glorified with Him (Rom. viii. 17). Human nature has made of compassion a law; taught mercy and compassion by our common weakness.
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