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00:30Well, dear brothers and sisters, we're back again, and we're happy with what we were discussing a moment ago. If we take as an example...
00:38The conversion, the experience of Saint Paul, we would then have to accept that it is born from an encounter with Christ that
00:47It is actually an inner revelation where man discovers himself to be loved and freed by God.
00:56This is why the querymigma is so important, because the querymigma is what will...
01:04To foster, to propose in us that experience of Damascus is what will help us to be with God
01:12enter our hearts in a special way and show us your love.
01:18Show us this love that we already know from catechesis because if we know that God is love and we can read
01:26We know a lot about Corinthians 13 and we can learn a lot about it, but man really needs to experience that God is with him.
01:35love.
01:35And that gives him a different understanding of his relationship with God and obviously his relationship with the world.
01:42all the people we wouldn't have without her.
01:45It is therefore, on the one hand, a Christophany in which the Lord Jesus manifested himself in some way
01:55to Saul through a light from heaven.
01:58On the other hand, it was an illustration of the unity of the divine plan of salvation for humanity.
02:07The God who now reveals himself to his son, who is the creator God, Lord of history and
02:15Faithful to the covenant with Israel, that is the God whom Saul has always served but who now manifests himself.
02:25in a wonderfully different way.
02:28Now, in a moment, he understands that things he had only read about were past experiences, were history.
02:37His people now have that story come to life in him.
02:41The God in whom he believed now manifests his love to him and fully reveals himself in this Trinitarian form.
02:50that we all also have to experience if we truly want our lives to be oriented, focused on a relationship
02:59safe with God and that can produce true conversion in us.
03:05We could say that in some way, inside Paul, as it must be in us, it was revealed to him
03:13the salvific value of the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah in God's plan and provided him
03:23a new vision of the history of salvation with the inauguration of the messianic era and the expectation of
03:30its final realization.
03:32This is what Pablo understands from a blow at the moment of that demonstration he has there in Damascus.
03:41The fact that the encounter with the resurrected Jesus Christ, the Messiah in whom the prophecies are fulfilled, will leave him blind
03:49outwardly displays his inner blindness to the truth of Christ.
03:54I have already made it clear in different ways that blindness in the gospels and in general in the New Testament
04:02It is an outward sign of a lack of faith, of being blind to the light of God.
04:08That is why only when Paul receives baptism does he regain his sight, physically fulfilling in him what
04:18Theologically, it has been realized in baptism.
04:20In this regard, Benedict XVI points out in his general audience of September 3, 2008, that it is possible and
04:30We need to talk about a conversion.
04:33See.
04:34To see is to be converted.
04:37A converted person will see his wife, his children, and his work differently.
04:44He will see the economic relationship in a different way.
04:51Everything is transformed.
04:53We really started to see.
04:56And that's why this experience is important for Pablo.
05:00And it also has to be an experience within us.
05:03To be able to see.
05:04If we continue to see things the way we always have, if for us marriage is what it has always been
05:12If our relationship with money has always been the same, if nothing has changed, then, oh, I come from
05:22a family in which my conversion is already imbued.
05:27In other words, it's something I absorbed, something I received directly from a young age, or I haven't become like that.
05:37In other words, if there's no change, or if I'm already converted and that's why I can't see, no matter what.
05:45As I continue to progress in my spiritual life, I can't see things differently, because that means that my life
05:51It's already been converted.
05:53I am only progressing in understanding and depth.
05:57Or, if I see that in addition to taking classes and this Bible course and not
06:04I know so many stories in the church, and I don't see my wife, my children, or our relationship any differently.
06:10with money, my relationship with my work, society.
06:14And nothing changes, brother, you haven't converted, this light hasn't entered your life, and you continue to see the
06:21Things as you've always seen them, and that's not conversion.
06:26We can say, without a doubt, that the encounter with Jesus Christ transforms his thinking and his life.
06:34This is the starting point of conversion, of the profound transformation that every man must undergo in order to live
06:42in the kingdom.
06:43Without this personal and transformative encounter, we cannot say that a Christian life truly exists.
06:53The proof is that man can now see.
06:57Don't you see?
06:59Well, there is no conversion.
07:01That's the proof.
07:02If everything stays the same, then there is no conversion.
07:07A person sees things differently when they convert.
07:13I can tell you this, anyone who has already experienced this personal encounter with
07:22Christ.
07:22And I would like this to be a strong motivator for you, so that all this study that we are carrying out,
07:29Let it not remain merely in mental matters, in erudition, but let it truly lead you to an encounter with Christ.
07:39And if you don't have it, if everything you've studied here with us hasn't provided it,
07:45Keep searching for it, go to your parish, look for a kerygma, open your heart, dedicate more time to your prayer.
07:52Ask the Lord for it.
07:53Lord, I want to know you, I want to know you inwardly.
07:57Tell him, I want to see all things renewed within me.
08:03This conversion is what leads us to a transformation in all areas of our lives.
08:09And this, obviously, is evident to everyone else.
08:13People are going to ask us, what happened to you?
08:17What happened in your life?
08:19You're not the same person I knew.
08:23And this is true the greater the distance in time,
08:26In other words, if I haven't seen someone for a week, maybe they won't notice.
08:30But if I haven't seen her for a month, two months, a year, three years, she'll say,
08:35You are a new, different person, I don't recognize you.
08:41There has been a conversion.
08:43And this happens precisely because of a dying process that leads me to a change.
08:51In other words, I die to certain things and am reborn to others.
08:54For Paul, everything related to Christ is connected to death.
09:02death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
09:07Not as concepts, but as a life experience.
09:11Paul has died with Christ, he has been buried with Him,
09:16and has been reborn, now being, by the power of the Holy Spirit, a new creation.
09:22Now, we can say, paraphrasing Rodney Reeves,
09:26that in general men seek to learn how to live,
09:31while Jesus in his Gospel teaches us how to die.
09:36To die a little each day.
09:40Conversion is death.
09:42It is the death of that old man that gives rise to the new man.
09:48To die and be buried so that one can be resurrected from there.
09:54And this is what Paul calls a living sacrifice.
09:59This radical change in the person makes one understand that everything in the world,
10:05if it is compared to Christ, and what the Christian life offers,
10:09is truly despicable.
10:12Let us listen to what the apostle Paul tells us in his letter to the Philippians.
10:17I invite you to look in your Bible, Philippians 3:8.
10:23We read the text that tells us,
10:26Everything I once considered valuable is now garbage.
10:33Brothers, this actually represents a death to everything that is not God.
10:41Things in themselves lose value, even though they are good.
10:46I can't say that my car is bad,
10:49or that having money is bad, or being married is bad.
10:53No.
10:54But they lose that dimension they previously had.
11:00And now everything changes.
11:02And it becomes completely secondary,
11:06not to say despicable, but at least secondary.
11:10This leads the person to experience the true freedom of the children of God.
11:15I am no longer tied to that car, or that house, or that money, or anything.
11:19I live in the freedom of the children of God.
11:23You have everything, but in reality you live as if you had nothing.
11:28Therefore, Saint Paul invites the Corinthians to live this freedom.
11:34These Corinthians, as you may recall from when we discussed the topic of the Corinthians,
11:38because they lived in a port full of amenities,
11:42where life in Corinth was about going to Corinthian, about having a good time.
11:48It's no longer of interest.
11:50Now, our perspective is God, our perspective is Christ.
11:55It is true that He already expected the end of times as something imminent.
12:01However, the reality is that he doesn't value anything that doesn't lead him to live a more fulfilling life.
12:07privacy,
12:08with Christ, with whom He is crucified.
12:12He was crucified with Him.
12:14He died with Him.
12:15He was buried, he was buried with Him and has been reborn.
12:22It has been a transformation in Christ.
12:27And that is why he writes to the Galatians one of the quotes that, at least for me, is truly very, very
12:34important.
12:35I would like us to read it together.
12:37It is Galatians 2:20.
12:39Let's go to our text.
13:02So this text tells us about the importance, the centrality of Christ in his life
13:11and how He has died with Him.
13:15And that's why, frankly, the things of this world no longer interest him.
13:20The only important thing, the only thing of value for Paul, will be to be united with Christ.
13:27And so, we stop our reflection here.
13:30We'll continue in a few moments.
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