In nominipatri, Sifidi, et spiti to Santi, amen.

How will anyone be able to satisfy these with bread here in the desert?

Today I'd like to preach about the gospel, but before that, I want to look at Romans

chapter 6 here. There's some very interesting lines that can confuse people,

but what St. Paul is talking about here is that when we are baptized, we are baptized into the same

death of Jesus. Now there's a confusing line here. It says, for we know that Christ having risen

from the dead dies now no more. Death shall no longer have dominion over him.

For the death that he died, he died to sin once for all.

Well, I don't need to preach to all of you.

Of course you know that Christ never sinned, so why does it say he died to sin?

Well, it was all of humanity's sin that was taken into death.

And it's just like we hear in the preface,

it's both in the old and the new mass. It is in dying that he destroyed our death, and it's in

rising that he restored our life. And so what Christ did is he took upon his shoulders the sin

slash death of all of humanity. And again, it's in dying that he destroyed our

death and rising, he restored a life. But it's very mysterious that St. Paul here talks about how

in baptism you died to sin also. The early church fathers have a very interesting phrase that I like a lot.

They say, if you die before you die, you will not die when you die.

If you die before you die, you will not die when you die.

What does that mean?

It means if you die to yourself, if you die to your passions,

if you die to all the selfish deeds of the body before you die, before you enter cardiac arrest,

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