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May That Same Mind Be in You that Was in Christ Jesus

September 29, 2002

The second reading for Mass today contains one of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament, St. Paul’s hymn to the self-emptying love of Christ. We sinners cling to godliness; the true God does not, but rather gives himself away in humility and love. The cross of Jesus is thus the undoing of the sin of Eden.