
This whole matter of making our lives a ‘Mass’ can be simplified (with anything but an oversimplification”) by the one word: obedience.
Jesus Christ did not redeem mankind by suffering. Jesus Christ did not repair the shattered fabric of creation by dying. Jesus Christ did not reconcile sinful man with the all-holy God by thorns, scourge, nails, or lance. Jesus Christ re-created the universe by obedience; or, better still, by love – for what is obedience in root, stem, and flower but love for the one commanding?
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