PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY($4.46Value)

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Born again in Baptism, we receive the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, and works in us (and with us) through grace and helps us in the lifelong struggle to restore our nature to the likeness of God once more. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Thus tells us the Lord in Matthew 5:48. Having renewed us through Baptism, and sanctified us through the Holy Spirit, the Lord encourages us to seek perfection, even the perfection of our Father which is in heaven. This is the true meaning of regaining our likeness to God, and the ultimate goal of the restoration of our nature; Christian perfection. The reward for this is our return to Paradise, out of which we were driven out when we lost this God-like perfection. Although the Bible tells us WHAT we need to do to reach perfection (and earn Eternal Life,) it does not tell us HOW to reach perfection. It leaves it up to each one of us. “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” is what St Paul tells us in (Phil 2:12) This booklet is an attempt in that direction. It is based on sermons I gave to the youth of our church in Kitchener, Ontario, during the Lent of 2001. Most of them were later published in our periodical “Parousia”.