In case you haven't heard... It's the year of St. Paul! The pope announced that the year would begin from June 29 2008 to June 29 2009, and would be dedicated to the life and teaching of St. Paul. To learn more about St Paul and his teachings, click here.
The following is as excerpt from the Year of St. Paul website.
New Life in Christ
Paul wanted people to remember that in Christ and the Holy Spirit, new life is possible. God gives us the grace to live the moral lives we are called to as Christians. In 1 Corinthians, Paul listed the misery of the peoples’ sinful lives before they had received Jesus
Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6: 9 – 10)
Paul explained that they were now a new people:
That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:11)
In reminding us of the price of our salvation, Paul was reminding us of the dignity we have as children of God and temples of the Holy Spirit.
Taken from Temples of the Holy Spirit.
