But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage!
The same is true, by faith, of all who are born again in Baptism.
That is why are are to celebrate the Lord's paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself.
For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we received.
As we have died with him, and have been buried and raised to life with him, so we bear him within us, both in body and in spirit, in everything we do.
--Pope St. Leo the Great, Paschal Homily
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