Then, Benedict XVI recalled that for the Apostle Paul "this living state does not depend on any good deed of ours, but on a pure grace of God’s". "With these words he said Saint Paul expresses the fundamental meaning of his conversion, the new direction of his life that came from his meeting with Christ Resurrected". Paul, he specified, "before his conversion was not distant from God and His law, on the contrary he was observant, with a faithful observance that verged on fanaticism". But as he met Christ he understood that "through all this, he had tried to build himself, his own justice, and with all this justice he had lived for himself". Instead, with this new direction "he no longer lives for himself, for his own justice, but he lives of Christ and with Christ, donating himself, no longer looking for or building himself". "In front of Christ’s Cross, the extreme act of his self-donation highlighted the Pope no one could boast himself and his own justice, made by himself and for himself". (to be continued)
