Alas! How few Christians even reflect on this privilege! How few try to live holy lives and thus prove worthy of the dignity that is theirs! How few make an effort to keep unspotted the baptismal garment of sinlessness that marks the innocent, pure, and loving child of God!
On the contrary, we often take pride in the honors bestowed by the world and, in an extraordinary inversion of values, put grace last, even though it is the only thing that, properly speaking, deserves our respect and esteem.
Many take pride in not being unworthy descendants of a supposedly illustrious lineage. At the same time, however, they are not afraid to betray their spiritual descent from God by an unclean life given over to the pleasures of the senses. They boast of an independence that is in fact an illusion, but are not shamed to enter into a horrible partnership with the devil and thus to accept his dominion once again, to put on his uniform once more, and to return to the condition of slavery in which they had the misfortune of being born.
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