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Friday, November 8, 2024

REMADE BODY - One Bread, One Body, 11/08/2024

For a limited time, we have many extra One Bread, One Body books in English (for the October-November issue) available to share with others in your parishes, rosary or prayer groups, family members, or in personal ministry i.e. nursing homes, prison ministry: whoever might benefit from this publication.
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Friday, November 8, 2024,

Philippians 3:17—4:1
Psalm 122:1-5
Luke 16:1-8

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REMADE BODY
"He will give a new form to this lowly body of ours and remake it according to the pattern of His glorified body." —Philippians 3:21

Many people desire to get their bodies “in shape.” They want to feel good and look good. Having a healthy, fit body is a good thing, but it’s not the only thing. The reality is that our bodies will die. Health and fitness are fleeting. The psalmist observes: “Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong” (Ps 90:10). Modern medicine and nutrition might even push life expectancy a few years longer. Yet our ultimate goal is not a few extra years of life, or a healthy, fit life, but the resurrection of our holy body to eternal life, so that our bodies will be members of the risen Body of Jesus.

How should we live in our bodies while on this earth so that our bodies and souls will be with Jesus forever? We make our bodies enemies of the world (Phil 3:19). We deny our very flesh and crucify ourselves to the world (Lk 9:23; Gal 6:14). We don’t wait until heaven to have “remade” bodies (see Phil 3:21); we let Jesus “remake” us right now (see 2 Cor 5:17). Our bodies are “begotten from above” in the waters of Baptism (Jn 3:3) and rise from those waters reborn, remade. Keep your body holy and pure (see 1 Jn 3:3) through frequent Confession and Mass.



Prayer: Father, my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and is not my own. Help me to glorify You in my body (1 Cor 6:19-20).

Promise: "We have our citizenship in heaven." —Phil 3:20

Praise: Jesus healed Kim of a broken leg overnight.

(This teaching was submitted by a member of our editorial team.)
(For a related teaching on Who Am I in Christ?, view, download or order our booklet on our website.)

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"In accord with the Code of Canon Law, I hereby grant the Nihil Obstat for the publication One Bread, One Body covering the time period from Octobert 1, 2024, through November 30, 2024. Reverend Steve J. Angi, Chancellor, Vicar General, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio January 24, 2024"

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