Sacrifice
“…The key to interpreting what the first Adam did and what he should have done is by looking at Christ because He is the second Adam. That is how He is described throughout the New Testament. Here is the second Adam, He also is tested, He also goes to the Garden and there He is tempted. Then He goes to the tree and there at the tree He lays His life down for the Bride – for His Church. He has assumed the curse of Adam upon Himself – the curse of sweat and the curse of thorns. He sweat blood and He bore the crown of thorns and there at the cross (the ‘tree of life’ as the early church fathers called it) He laid His life down…”
~Scott Hahn
“We cannot decide to become saints without a great effort of renunciation, of resisting temptations, of combat, persecutions, and of all sorts of sacrifices. It is not possible to love God except at one’s own expense.”
~Mother Teresa
“…God calls us to love like the Trinity loves. The Father pours His life out to generate the Son. The Son images the Father by pouring that life, that gift out and He gives it back to the Father which is the Spirit. God calls us to enter into that life. But we can’t unless we give consent to the gift of self – to the sacrifice of self.”
~Scott Hahn
(the above was typed from a lecture – any grammatical errors are mine)
~Scott Hahn
“We cannot decide to become saints without a great effort of renunciation, of resisting temptations, of combat, persecutions, and of all sorts of sacrifices. It is not possible to love God except at one’s own expense.”
~Mother Teresa
“…God calls us to love like the Trinity loves. The Father pours His life out to generate the Son. The Son images the Father by pouring that life, that gift out and He gives it back to the Father which is the Spirit. God calls us to enter into that life. But we can’t unless we give consent to the gift of self – to the sacrifice of self.”
~Scott Hahn
(the above was typed from a lecture – any grammatical errors are mine)
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