00:00In this sense, Saint Paul, writing to the Philippians, in chapter 2, verse 5, says, we must have the same attitudes that Christ had.
00:13R. Jeffers says, attitude is our emotional and mental response to life's circumstances.
00:24It's how we react to life's circumstances.
00:27R. Jeffers says, someone comes along, punches you in the cheek, insults you, and what is your attitude?
00:38That defines you. That defines, as my dad would say, the deepest part of Aden's soul.
00:48When people see us act, when they see our attitudes, they can quickly tell what we're made of.
00:58It's easy to tell in everyday life who is a Christian and who is just claiming to be a Christian.
01:06R. Jeffers says, attitude is your stance towards facing the various situations in life.
01:18The face you show to people every day, that's your attitude.
01:26So, how do you deal with problems?
01:28For example, how are we dealing with this situation today?
01:32Insecurity, this situation of a faltering economy.
01:43What is our attitude?
01:44How do people see us?
01:46Does he truly see us as trusting in God?
01:51Do you see us happy in the midst of difficulty?
01:55Those are our attitudes.
02:00This is what our own life reveals.
02:03If you look closely, it has nothing to do with the catechism, the fact that I know that God is Trinity.
02:08Or that angels exist.
02:12Or that purgatory does not exist.
02:14Or that hell exists.
02:16This has nothing to do with that.
02:19This is something that the Spirit has had to work on in my life.
02:22To form the inner Christ within me.
02:27To be able to say, as Saint Paul says.
02:30I am no longer the one who lives.
02:33If it is not Christ who lives in me.
02:36We find it there in the letter to the Galatians in chapter 2.20.
02:41I am no longer the one who lives.
02:43It has been forming, as he says in his letter to the Ephesians chapter 4.
02:47The new man has been forming within me.
02:52A man formed in the image of Christ.
02:57And from there we can now understand why Paul says.
03:00Be imitators of me.
03:02Because he is not even an imitator of Jesus.
03:07Rather, he has the mind of Christ.
03:11And of course, with that mindset.
03:13It is truly Christ who governs his entire life through the Spirit.
03:19And this is the work of our Lent.
03:24To open our hearts and our lives through our penitential practices.
03:30So that we may attain the mind of Christ.
03:35So that the new man may be formed in us.
03:38So that God, through the Holy Spirit, may form this new man in us.
03:41Let it be guided by the Holy Spirit.
03:45Thank you.
03:46Thank you.
03:47Thank you.
03:48Thank you.
