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We are urged to be kind to other people and to treat them with respect. While these are good and praiseworthy virtues to practice, before we can consistently perform them, we need to cultivate them in our hearts.
St. Paul of the Cross comments on this reality in a letter featured by the Church's Office of Readings.
If we want to be truly good and holy people, we need to first unite ourselves inwardly to Jesus Christ.
Otherwise, our outward actions may end up being empty, and we will likely not have the strength to endure.
Being kind to others is not easy, and our frail human nature will inevitably fail if we rely only on our own strength. Instead, we should be fed with the strength of our Lord and let him work through us.
