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Today is Friday, July 2, 2021.

All week, we have been talking about two of the greatest men in church history,

Saints Peter and Paul.

Both of them were martyred on June 29th in the year 67 under the insane Emperor Nero. We have heard a lot about who these men were, how they encountered Jesus, and also how

filled with the Holy Spirit, they set out to evangelize, to baptize, and to establish the early church,

a church that we still belong to today, and that we still are so indebted to these men for

establishing. Now, yesterday we talked about who St. Paul was in his conversion along the road

to Damascus. Today, we are going to simply pause

and reflect and listen to some of the great words that St. Paul wrote in his letters. Now,

we're going to read a passage from the second chapter in the letter to the Philippians.

In this, St. Paul records a song.

Now, as you can imagine, way back in the early church, not everyone knew how to read and write.

And so they would oftentimes sit and listen to preaching, and that is how they learned about Jesus.

But they also learned about Jesus through songs.

The early Christians were writing songs about Christ so that they could learn about him and praise him.

And whether Paul himself wrote this song, or it is a song written by other Christians, it is a beautiful,

beautiful tribute to who Christ was, what he did, what he established, and what God himself

teaches us about himself through Jesus.

And through all of these things, Paul reminds us that we are called to be different to.

That as followers of Christ, we are called to imitate his humility.

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