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“The Lord said to Abraham: get thee out of your land, from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you” (Gen. 12:1)
This is a clear image of the change of heart that takes place in true believers when they sincerely take up their cross and follow Christ. They leave their father - selfhood, crucifying it with selflessness; they leave their family - their personal sinful inclinations, passions and habits, having crucified them with the determination to unswervingly follow the passion-killing commandments of the Lord in everything; they leave their land, the entire sinful region, the world, with all its demands, crucifying it with the determination to be alien to it, even if for this it was necessary to suffer not only losses in property and social weight, but also death itself.
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