Spiritual life:

Jesus Christ is the foundation of our lives. He is the beginning and the end. Everything happens through him. God sent his Son as the ultimate expression of his love. Jesus Christ is our way. He is God’s way to man. Conversely, Jesus is man’s way to God. Through Jesus, God comes to us, and through Jesus, we go to God. The Incarnation is the most crucial event in history. God united himself with human nature. Because of this, we can live with God. Through Jesus, we come to know the Father. As Jesus said, “Whoever sees me sees the Father.

” The Gospels reveal how Jesus revealed himself and what he did. St. Paul writes, “If God gave us his Son, he gave us everything else.” When we love one another, it is an expression of our affection. When God loves, he doesn’t just give something; he gives himself in Jesus Christ. This is why knowing Christ is so important. Through Christ, we receive salvation. By taking on our human nature and dying for us, he became the cause of our salvation. He saved us, and we will be saved when we unite our lives with his. Spiritual life means our relationship with Christ grows and deepens until it reaches the stage described by St. Paul: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” What does this mean? It means that Christ begins to fully manifest himself in a person. This is actually the pinnacle of Christian striving: giving space to Christ in our lives. Jesus Christ is at the beginning of our conversion. Because of him, we renounce sin. As St. Paul said, “What I once considered a gain, I have written down as a loss for Christ. For his sake, I have renounced everything.” Our conversion is not genuine unless it includes a relationship with Christ. However, Christ is also the cause of our rebirth. Our new life is possible only in Christ. No one can save himself. Even if he were perfect and did everything, it would not lead to salvation if he did not do it with Christ.”No one can rid themselves of sin on their own. No one can defeat death. Only Jesus defeated death. Spiritual life begins with baptism. That is when we became connected to Christ. But we must strive to live with Christ. This means letting die within ourselves whatever is contrary to union with Christ. One more thing is essential to our life with Christ. And that is our life in the Church. We all form the mysterious body of Christ, the Church. The Church is Jesus’ work from the very beginning. Our life with God takes place in the Church. Jesus’ spirit is at work in the Church—the Holy Spirit. When we are not connected to the Church, we are not connected to Jesus. Many people in the world are not interested in spiritual life. They live only for this world. St. Paul wrote about this. Their belly is their god, shame is their glory, and destruction is their end.