In receiving (and accepting into one's own life) the Savior
who lays down his life for others, the Eucharist offers the social order the leavening power of self - donative love.
This relation was made possible by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Who submitted to the Father's will by obeying Him to the extent
of laying down His life for us.
To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the
end laying down his life for the sake of others.
Watch for as little as five minutes and you would happily
lay down your life for Jan Stenerud, proving once again that as effective propagandists go, Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl had nothing on the Sabol family.
The other is the love that leads to loyalty and sacrifice: «greater love has no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.»
The priest is asked to love the Church, to care for the people to whom he is sent, with the same love of the Good Shepherd
who laid down His life for the sheep (cf. John 10:11).
To be united to Christ means to be the object of His love
in laying down His life for His friends, and in return to love Him, to trust and obey Him, and to love all those who belong to Him.
With a strong team of individuals who love their jobs and will
gladly lay down their lives for the good of the company, it won't be long before you see a boost in productivity.
«As a granddaughter, daughter, niece, wife and sister of a veteran, I find it shameful for the president to deem a certain group of people as unqualified to serve in our military... A person should not be deemed unfit to
lay down their life for their country based on their gender identity.»
The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by
laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).
Not smart considering many of those defending your right to be a Conservative nutjob, are going to
lay down their lives for your right to be a Conservative nutjob.
John 10: 14 «I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me — 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and
I lay down my life for the sheep.
The Bible tells men to
lay down their lives for their wives as Christ did for the church (Ephesians 5:25 - 28).
«The church gives a visual presentation of the gospel when we forgive one another as Christ has forgiven us, when we commit to one another as Christ has committed to us, and when
we lay down our lives for one another as Christ laid down his life for us.»
If you seek the example of love: Greater love than this no man has, than to
lay down his life for his friends.
I lay down my life for the sheep.
I lay down my life for you and for our children.
Jesus wants us to follow His example of death and resurrection so that
we lay down our lives for others.