CCC 2784: “The free gift of adoption requires on our part continual conversion and new life.“

Philippians 1: 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5: 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will also accomplish it.

2 Corinthians 4: 16 Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Pope John Paul II: We cannot preach conversion unless we ourselves are converted anew every day.

CCC 1888: It is necessary, then, to appeal to the spiritual and moral capacities of the human person and to the permanent need for his inner conversion, so as to obtain social changes that will really serve him. The acknowledged priority of the conversion of heart in no way eliminates but on the contrary imposes the obligation of bringing the appropriate remedies to institutions and living conditions when they are an inducement to sin, so that they conform to the norms of justice and advance the good rather than hinder it.

CCC 1490: The movement of return to God, called conversion and repentance, entails sorrow for and abhorrence of sins committed, and the firm purpose of committing these sins no more in the future. Conversion touches the past and the future and is nourished by hope in God’s mercy.

1 Peter 5: 8 Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for (someone) to devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your fellow believers throughout the world undergo the same sufferings.

Luke 9: 23 Then he said to all, “If any man wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.“

 “… working through charity,” abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of the Church.” Cf.  Galatians 5:6; Romans 15:13; cf. James 2:14-26.

Galatians 2: I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Colossians 2: ¹¹ you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ having canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him

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+ Abp. Fulton J Sheen on the Cross of Loneliness