“I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.”
(Rom 12:1-2)
St. Paul urges us to keep the bar as high as Jesus set it. In the Gospel, he teaches, “whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” Mt 16:24. He goes on to challenge the Church, “whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” Mt 16:25. The stakes are as high as the bar. Be transformed.
Petition:
That we may be transformed by losing our lives to find it anew in Jesus, we pray to the Lord..