New Life in Christ

CHRIST BEFORE ME  CHRIST RENEW ME

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New Life in Christ:  

The petition “CHRIST RENEW ME” is an act of humility and a plea to be renewed by the One Who made us to begin with, our Creator.  Only in Jesus can we become renewed.  Renewal is continual and doesn’t stop in this lifetime.  We should meditate upon His most Sacred Heart and unite our hearts to His, so that our heart becomes more and more like His.

Psalm 51:10:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew in me a steadfast spirit.”

Reflection from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1691, which is a quote from St. Leo the Great, Sermon 21:  “Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning.  Remember who is your head and whose body you are a member.  Never forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of the Kingdom of God.”

Do you know who you are?  If you were baptized, you are part of Christ’s body.  That is some serious stuff!  You can’t just overlook that and blow it off.  It is huge!  You have dignity beyond comprehension.  Treat yourself that way.  He said that you share in God’s own nature, and the Church teaches that fact.  Your whole existence is totally awesome!  Do you realize that?  Do you even know who you are?  

We need Christ to help us know this in a real way.  That is why we ask Him to renew us, because we share in His nature and He is God.  He knows our struggles and He wants to renew us.  Christ renews us continually.  We try to stay on the right path, allowing Christ to transform us so that we may become more like Christ, from one degree of glory to another.  Yet we sin and screw things up and make dumb choices.  

“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray and thus acquire experience.” --St. Teresa of Avila

Thank God that even after we sin, we are renewed in confession through Christ.  God can even use our sins to teach us.  We will continue to be renewed and have joy as we grow in our new life in Christ.  No matter how we used to be, we can always be forgiven by God.  There is no limit to his mercy!  We are renewed by Christ.

Charles Cardinal Journet:  “God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.”

2 Corinthians, 3:14-18

But their minds were hardened; for to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.  Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds; but when a man turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.  Now the Lord is Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

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O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.