When the Lord tells us in the Gospel that anyone who wants to be his follower must renounce himself, the injunction seems harsh; we think he is imposing posing a burden on us. But an order is no burden when it is given by one who helps in carrying it out. To what place are we to follow Christ if not where he has already gone? We know that he has risen and ascended cended into heaven; there, then, we must follow him. There is no cause for despair-by ourselves we can do nothing, but we have Christ’s promise.
–Saint Caesarius of Arles (460-542)
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