My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

181 The Im'tdion of Clrrist
do we live according to the maxinisof tBe world? Jesus
led a simple and ordinary life; He ate, glept, labored
like us; He suffered, wept, passed through all our trials,
in order to serve us as an example in everyfhing. Do
we strive to copy so admirable a model, and say to
ourselves: 'Is it thus that Jesus Christ muld act, would
speak, would think? Is this His religion, His char-
ity, His meekness, His modesty, His recollection, His
spirit of sacrifice ? "
When I shall have been formed upon Jesus Christ,
then am I declared by God to be one of His predestined:
for whom He forekw, He also pedaW to be mait?
conformable to the image of His Son.
If we do not imitate Jesus Christ, we are none of
His - "He who jollmueth Me not cats not be My disciple."
Here then is the study, the occupation of our life;
- to meditate upon the life of Jesus Christ, to reproduce
in our lives the life of Jesus Christ. To follow Christ
we must be ruled and guided by the spirit of Christ
On this subject Father Cuthbert writes in "De Torrente"
:
"The object of the Chistian religion is to produce
in each of us the life of Christ, so that in all our thoughts,
words, and actions, we shall live as He would have us
live, and our whole being move in harmony with His
mind and will. The perfect Christian is indeed one
in whbse life the life of Christ Himself m y be said
to be reflected; nay more, through whose We the lighf
of Christ's life may be said to shine, so that what you
see is not merely the mind or action of the disciple, but
of the Master in the disciple. Not that the individual
character af the disciple is in any way blurred or destroyed.
The disciple does not cease to be himself
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