In Christ

To live "in Christ" is to live in a mystery equal

to that of the Incarnation and similar to it.

For as Christ unites in His one Person

the two natures of God and man,

so too in making us His friends He dwells in us,

uniting us intimately to Himself.

Dwelling in us He becomes as it were our superior self,

for He has united and identified our inmost self with Himself.

From the moment that we have responded by faith

and charity to His love for us, a supernatural union

of our souls with His indwelling Divine Person gives us

a participation in His divine sonship and nature.

A "new being" is brought into existence.

I become a "new man" and this new man,

spiritually and mystically one identity,

is at once Christ and myself."

-Thomas Merton