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00:00How's it going? Well, we're back with this topic of community and the divisions that sometimes arise within groups, which is extremely, extremely harmful.
00:30That is why it is extremely important that we, you and I, are builders of unity in our own communities.
00:41As good Christians, we must strive for unity within the diversity of charisms and understand, for the love of God, understand and help others understand that we are one body
00:58and that we must all cooperate for the body to function.
01:04This hand, who knows what it wants to do? And the other one, the other one.
01:07No, these two hands come together to take this cup and be able to drink.
01:11And the mouth cooperates, right? If I put it in or if I want to drink and I close my mouth, well then, what do I do?
01:19"Oh, no, I'm not going to carry the cup for you," says the hand. "Me, I'd better, the cup is mine."
01:25Look, no, no, no, don't pull like that, for God's sake.
01:28We are one body and love has to flow in that body, which is what unites it, gives it unity within a great diversity of charisms.
01:41Some are drawn to charity towards the poorest, others to Eucharistic adoration, and still others perhaps to missions.
01:49Some work more with children, others more with young people, others with the elderly, others go to orphanages.
01:57There are so many charisms. Why? Because, as Paul says, they are all necessary for our body to function properly.
02:07Certainly, this is very difficult when the point of unity is not Christ and his gospel.
02:13In other words, when evangelization does not take place in our parishes, it encounters great difficulties.
02:19When everyone invents their own Christ and their own gospel, well, obviously everyone invents strange things.
02:26Hence the importance of being, that is, not only well evangelized, but of continuing, as we are saying,
02:35a growth in Christ that enables us to function.
02:40Check yourself, allow us to function for the good of the whole body of Christ, which is the church.
02:50To work well.
02:51When we maintain a close relationship with Christ through the Spirit, who is nourished, is nourished by prayer,
03:03Our communion with others grows rapidly.
03:07Well, you find people who say, hey, I feel like I've known you my whole life.
03:10No, it's called communion of the Spirit.
03:13And that is how we can enter into this communion with everyone.
03:18It is the communion of the one Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, where it is the same Spirit that unites us, that makes us a community, a body.
03:28It's incredible to realize how this spiritual relationship truly exists and unites.
03:37I notice it, and you will notice it too on your journey as a Christian, that you suddenly encounter brothers and sisters who belong to other communities,
03:48in other very distant places.
03:49I travel to evangelize.
03:52I run into people who I feel like I've always known.
03:54But it just happened to me recently; I just met a young couple who seem like they could be my siblings.
04:00that I would have always lived with them, they were so nice.
04:04Furthermore, I can't explain it, it's impossible to explain how.
04:08That is, suddenly the Spirit begins to flow among us.
04:14One of these girls comes from Colombia and we integrated in an incredible way.
04:19They are married and we were also able to work with one of the sisters from the diocese where I went.
04:24She was in charge of this youth ministry.
04:30So, my God, this communion of spirits does exist.
04:35This brotherhood is what truly makes us one with Christ and is what defines us as His followers.
04:42We must remember what Jesus already told us.
04:47You will remember chapter 13 of Saint John.
04:51By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
04:57It says so in John 13.
04:59Without this loving relationship, without this relationship of love and communion, it will be very difficult for people to believe.
05:16We are one body and as such we must present ourselves to others, for goodness' sake.
05:22We could speak of a true communion, and this community has this characteristic, united in Christ.
05:36However, the church is a community of brothers and sisters who live under this same spirit that unites us and makes us participate in love.
05:51From the love of God, the only love, thus giving, as we have been saying, the testimony of being truly disciples of the Lord.
06:04But at the same time, the church unites, not only through doctrine and spirit, notice this,
06:12but because each of them has put to death the old man and is now a new creation, as Paul says in his letter to the Ephesians.
06:24That is a fundamental characteristic.
06:30We have, or are in, this process of putting the old man to death.
06:37We could practically say that it is the community of the new men.
06:40That's why we said at the beginning that this is, well, it is already a colony of heaven.
06:50We are those who live in the spirit, but we cannot live in the spirit if we do not put to death the flesh.
06:56if we do not put an end to the old man.
07:00We could therefore say that the church, as this text I found some time ago fascinated me,
07:07that the church is the community of the dead in Christ.
07:11It's cool, isn't it?
07:13The dead in Christ.
07:15That's the church.
07:17If you notice, we're always talking about elements that unite us.
07:21And it's important that we check if we are part of this
07:27Insofar as we are part of this community, in this case, for example,
07:32of the community of the dead in Christ.
07:35If you and I are truly looking to put an end to our passions.
07:42In other words, there is unity from a spiritual perspective,
07:46But there is also a unity in moral life,
07:51since we are not all united by the same spirit,
07:55but rather out of the very desire to serve and love Christ,
08:00dying to everything that separates us from Him.
08:03It is a moral life that honors Christ
08:05And to do that we need to put all these passions to death,
08:10crucify them, as Paul says.
08:13This moral aspect is one of the elements that,
08:17Sadly, they separate us from one another,
08:21creating divisions, discord.
08:25Well, everyone wants to be a good Christian.
08:27But not everyone is willing to leave permanently.
08:32that which separates us from Christ.
08:35No, we are not willing.
08:39You know very well what separates you from Him.
08:41You know very well that this sin separates you from the Lord,
08:44that those friendships separate you from the Lord,
08:47that those activities separate you from the Lord,
08:49But you don't want to leave them.
08:51But if you want to belong to the church.
08:55It can't be done, brother.
08:56It can't be done.
08:58We are the dead in Christ.
09:01This death to worldly life,
09:03for the early Christians,
09:05It was something very palpable,
09:08since from the time of baptism, this new life was emphasized.
09:13which comes from crucifying our body with Christ
09:18and die, and die.
09:21That is why everyone,
09:24from baptism,
09:25all the signs,
09:27They invited the community
09:28so that they could understand this new state of death-life,
09:33The Christian's death and resurrection.
09:36Baptism was done by immersion.
09:40and not as it is currently done by spraying.
09:44And in the rite of immersion,
09:47the community,
09:49but above all the baptized,
09:52I could understand in a tangible way
09:54that death would take place there
09:58and in the birth to new life.
10:04It was something he understood.
10:06Because?
10:07Because, well,
10:09It was a normal practice for the community.
10:11the way in which the rite should be performed.
10:17I mean,
10:17Baptism was performed
10:19only once a year
10:21in which the catechumens
10:24were baptized,
10:25that is to say,
10:26those who had been preparing
10:28to enter the Christian life
10:29They were called catechumens
10:30and they were baptized
10:32only once a year.
10:34This was
10:34quite an event
10:37for the community
10:37to welcome the new brothers.
10:41One of the testimonies
10:42what do we have of this
10:43These are the catechesis
10:44post-baptismal
10:46of Saint Cedar of Jerusalem.
10:48I hope you have the opportunity
10:49from reading them.
10:50They're there in PDF format.
10:51on the internet
10:52where he comments
10:54how the baptized
10:56was submerged
10:57three times in the water
10:59and about this
11:01catechesis
11:02It says the following.
11:03I'll read you a little bit
11:04of this catechesis.
11:06Says
11:06When submerged
11:08have you seen
11:10all black
11:11as a result of
11:12He almost suffocated
11:13The person, right?
11:14And then
11:15upon exiting the water
11:16has
11:17taken in the air
11:19that life gives you.
11:20and you have seen
11:22the light.
11:25I mean,
11:27practically
11:29They were drowning them.
11:32For a start
11:33they submerged them
11:35backward.
11:37that is to say,
11:38how to go to bed
11:39one dead,
11:41as if it were
11:42the person already
11:43dead,
11:44They're going to put her to bed.
11:45and they're going to keep it
11:47there
11:48until he starts
11:49to run out of air.
11:51I mean,
11:51It wasn't
11:51a,
11:51two,
11:52three and out.
11:53No,
11:53They put it in
11:54and they left him.
11:55Just a moment
11:56in there,
11:57TRUE?
11:57have you seen
11:58all black,
11:59says.
12:01And then
12:02They take you out
12:03and
12:03I think we've had
12:07that experience,
12:07No?
12:08I mean,
12:08sales and
12:09and again
12:11inside
12:12and again
12:14and says
12:14and you have
12:16taken
12:17the air
12:18of life
12:18and you have seen
12:20the light.
12:21Look
12:22the sign
12:23which was
12:24for the first
12:25Christians
12:25or baptisms.
12:27Really
12:28They understood
12:29which is about
12:31to die
12:32to the old man.
12:36Certainly
12:36all these
12:37They are signs
12:38which are called
12:39illustrative signs
12:40that help us
12:42to understand.
12:42Today
12:42It's very difficult.
12:44understand this
12:45because everyone
12:46we are baptized
12:46by spraying
12:47or we were baptized
12:48by spraying.
12:49We were kicked out
12:49a few splashes
12:50water
12:51when we were little
12:51we didn't know
12:52and what was going on
12:53absolutely
12:53nothing at all
12:54we had not been
12:55catechized
12:56we had not been
12:57evangelized
12:57we didn't have
12:58the most remote
12:59idea of nothing
13:00as explained
13:03in the previous course
13:03I mean
13:04when we realized
13:04we were sitting
13:05on a bench
13:06and our parents
13:07one day they told us
13:07that we
13:08We were Catholics
13:09that we were Christians
13:10And what does that mean?
13:15We don't know
13:15still in the previous course
13:19We think they are rituals
13:22which are things
13:23that you have to learn
13:23No, brother.
13:25It's truly a death.
13:27It is dying
13:29it's about changing
13:30is transforming
13:32all these
13:35They are signs
13:36of reality
13:38ontological
13:39is called
13:39of this change
13:40of nature
13:41what happens
13:42at baptism
13:43in which
13:44practically
13:46we die
13:47to the past life
13:48and we are born
13:49to the new life
13:51in these rites
13:54has
13:55of great importance
13:57the deacon
13:57who was the one who baptized
13:59and?
14:00represents
14:01to the church
14:02we die
14:05in hands
14:06of the church
14:07And it is the same church
14:09the one that gives us
14:10life
14:11the one that us
14:12brings out of the darkness
14:14and it takes us
14:15in the light
14:16admirable
14:17who is Christ Jesus
14:18It's wonderful.
14:20I've always thought
14:23that we should
14:24to go back to this
14:25the children
14:28as you may recall
14:30in our first chapter
14:31in our first course
14:32the children
14:33are baptized
14:35in the Catholic Church
14:36nowadays
14:38with an expectation
14:39which is false
14:40that the parents
14:42They are Christians
14:43which is not true
14:43the Christian
14:45has become clear
14:45which is the one that puts
14:46his hand on the Bible
14:47and says
14:47Yeah
14:48I want to be
14:49a follower of Christ
14:51and at least
14:53had a year
14:53of evangelization
14:54Get to know Christ
14:56get to know his church
14:57know their requirements
14:58knows more or less
15:00What is it about?
15:00We are doing it right now
15:01going deeper
15:02Well
15:03the children
15:04of those people
15:06could be baptized
15:08because
15:09those people
15:10already Christian
15:11they were going to form
15:12a Christian home
15:13where the children
15:14they were going to grow
15:15as Christians
15:16from a young age
15:17this that they learned
15:18that lifestyle
15:20that they learned
15:21and that they developed
15:22now the child
15:23it absorbed it
15:24today this
15:25does not exist
15:26sadly
15:27But it has to be said.
15:29openly
15:29would be necessary
15:32according to
15:33my very personal opinion
15:34that we would return
15:37again
15:37to the above
15:39that
15:42Christians
15:43decide
15:44It doesn't have to be
15:45until the age
15:4618 or 20 years old
15:48depending
15:50the child
15:51that much
15:53that not so much
15:53whether
15:54I mean
15:55at least
15:55in adolescence
15:56I mean
15:58and
15:59this rite
16:00where I understand
16:01clearly
16:02that I died
16:03the catechesis says
16:06and you wore all black
16:07and then
16:09the deacon
16:10the church
16:11It brings you back to life
16:15oh well
16:17we continue in our
16:18next chapter
16:19to continue talking
16:19in the next chapter