"We are in a fight for our lives." This was part of the message ancient converts received as they approached their reception into the Church. The sober tone and images of the traditional pre-Lent Sundays (Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and this Sunday Quinquagesima) compelled prospective catechumens to ask, “What am I getting into?” We are in a fight for our eternal lives against perennial enemies, the world, the flesh and the Devil. Christ is our Saviour and our King, our brother and our God. Unity in Him means freedom from sin and death in the perpetual chasm of agonised self-loathing.
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"we are in a fight for our lives." this was part of the message ancient converts received as they approached their reception into the church...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
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