Jesus Christ is “the only Lord of our life, amidst the many ‘rulers’ who want to steer and guide it”, and that’s why “one must have a scale of values in which God comes first”. This was reiterated by the Pope, in the catechesis during today’s general audience, about the hymn of the Letter to the Philippians, a sort of Saint Paul’s “spiritual will” and one of the oldest hymns or songs of the Christian tradition. “The human logic – Benedict XVI stated – often looks for self-accomplishment in power, in ruling, in powerful means. Man keeps wanting to build Babel’s tower with his own strengths, to reach God’s height, to be like God”. The incarnation and the Cross “remind us, instead, that full accomplishment lies in conforming one’s human will to the Father’s, in emptying oneself of the self, of one’s own selfishness, to be filled with love, with God’s charity, and thus become truly capable of loving other people”. “The encounter with the Resurrected – the Pope said, speaking of Saint Paul’s life – made him understand that He is the only treasure for which it is worth spending one’s life”. (continued)

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