What Does This Mean To You?

[foundsheep]

[quote]Matthew 16:25
    For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

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Sometimes it takes for me to read this verse to think of how selfish I can be. Selfishness not only meaning wanting things for myself, but selfishness also in always thinking I have to be right no matter what I say. Make sure to take care to teach what the church teaches for its glory and not for your own.


Sweet mother bless Your Sons Holy Church,

Foundsheep

[Christina]

I view it more like.... being in the world and wanting what it has to offer. Then, as you are going thru conversion (lifetime experience btw) and realizing that the world isn't what you need. It's God and His salvation. So, you shake off the world (die to it i.e. yourself) and you are reborn into God's love. Giving yourself completely to God... body, soul and mind. Giving up the things of the world for God and His ways.

Hope that makes sense.

After writing that, I wanted to see what the CCC had to say about this Scripture and found this:

[i]736 By this power of the Spirit, God's children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us onto the true vine will make us bear "the fruit of the Spirit: . . . love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."129 "We live by the Spirit"; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we "walk by the Spirit."130

Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God "Father" and to share in Christ's grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory.131[/i]

[conservativecatholic]

It is sickening to see how selfishness effects people's lives these days. Everytime I ask a friend why they haven't been attending Mass recently, they always respond, "We have no time." That makes me furious. Time is no excuse! Do you think Jesus said dying on the bloody cross, " Timeout, it's [u]me [/u] time!" This is truly a joke. I am pleased to see that people here at Phatmass have time for the Lord. I really like it here. Thanks for making it such a fabulous phorum! May God Bless!