“Christ put on our ‘clothes’: the pain and the joy of being a man, the hunger, the thirst, the tiredness, the hopes and disappointments, the fear of death, all our apprehensions, through to his death. And He gave us his ‘clothes.
This is what is accomplished in Baptism: we are re-clothed in Christ, He gives us his clothing and this is not an external thing. It means we enter in an existential communion with Him, that His being and ours merge together, they mutually permeate one another.....Putting ourselves at Christ’s disposal means we let ourselves be drawn into his ‘for all’: by being with Him, we can really be there ‘for all.’”
-Pope Benedict XVI
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