not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it” (Mt 10:37–39). Ruth is a foreigner and a Gentile. St. Paul says that Gentiles were “alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world” (Eph 2:12). Ruth must have heard about the God of Israel from Naomi and chooses to follow her God even if it means losing her own gods, land, ancestry,