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Words of Fire: The Early Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians and the Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s letters to the Thessalonica and Galatia are not words of disinterested philosophy nor cold catechetical teaching. They are words of fire, burning with the love of God and his people. These early epistles have endured through the centuries to burn in our hearts as well. In Words of Fire: The Early Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians and the Galatians, Farley works from a literal...

live to God, receiving the new life of the Spirit in the Church. This new life is available through the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. In baptism, we are joined to Him, sharing His Crucifixion and Cross, co-crucified with Him (Gr. sustauroo) so that we might also share His Resurrection life. This new life is not my own; it is Christ’s. His life is now mine. Or rather, He lives His life through me: it is no longer I myself who live, but Christ lives in me. The principle and context of this life
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