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Rootfroot	Monday, 23. February 2009, 21:48
Posts: 37 Group: Members Member #220 Joined: February 16, 2009	A phrase in the Philippians text sprang out at me. "in growing conformity with his death" (New English Bible). Very difficult to sound out all its depths. The phrase came back to me when I tried to answer the first question in the notes "In what way does faith in Jesus influence my own life?" How could I ever really say of myself that I live day by day in growing conformity with his death. Strangely enough I recently heard the same phrase used in a documentary about a saint who had patiently endured blindness and paralysis. It stuck in my mind then too. Like Paul she was vividly aware of sharing Christ's sufferings. I get cranky if I'm a bit under the weather. How could I ever hope to 'grow in conformity with his death'? Another image came to mind in connection with that phrase also. I was reading in the Catholic Herald about a Bishop in China imprisoned for 2 and half years for ordaining priests, at the age of 85. If Catholicism were illegal here, as they say, I wonder would there be enough evidence against me to convict. I like that old conversation stopper I'm afraid.
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